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A SELECTIVE MICROFILM EDITION

PART IV
(1899-1910)

Thomas E. Jeffrey
Lisa Gitelman
Gregory Jankunis
David W. Hutchings
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Gregory Field
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NEW JERSEY PATENT COMPANY RECORDS

The New Jersey Patent Co. was incorporated in the State of New
Jersey on April 25, 1903. It was concerned primarily with obtaining and
holding phonograph-related patents granted to Edison and other
experimenters. It also held some securities of Edison and non-Edison
companies. In 1906 Edison succeeded one of the incorporators, Louis M.
Sanders, as president. In 1911 the company's property rights were
transferred to Thomas A. Edison, Inc., in exchange for stock in that
corporation. The company was officially dissolved in 1931. The records
cover the years 1 903-1 911, with a small amount of additional material from
1917, 1925, and 1926. They consist of minutes, a letterbook, a general
ledger, and a journal. Unbound correspondence regarding the activities of the
company can be found in the "New Jersey Patent Company" folders in the
Document File Series.

The records are arranged in the following order: (1) minutes
(1903-1906); (2) letterbook (1908-1910); (3) ledger (1903-1926); and (4)
journal (1903-1926).

Minutes (1903-1906)

This folder consists of unbound minutes of the New Jersey Patent Co. Included are
minutes of the organizational meeting of May 14, 1903; copies of the certificate of incorporation
and bylaws; and directors' and stockholders' minutes through February 5, 1906.

Letterbook (1908-1910)

This letterbook covers the period February 1 908-June 1 91 0. It contains four letters signed
by Edison as president of the New Jersey Patent Co. and two letters by Harry F. Miller, secretary
and treasurer. One of Edison's letters agrees to pay Jonas W. Aylsworth $20,000 and Walter H.
Miller $10,000 for making a commercially viable eight-minute record.

Ledger (1903-1926)

This ledger covers the period May 1903 to February 1911, with additional entries from
1917, 1925, and 1926. As the account book of final entry, it summarizes transactions pertaining
to the business of the New Jersey Patent Co. Separate accounts detail cash, general expense,
experimental, and patent transactions. Included are accounts with Edison, patent attorneys, and
other individuals and companies. Edison's account covers the period June 1 903-December 1910,
with two additional entries from 1917. The entry for February 27, 1909, includes a $5,000,000
credit to Edison, indicated as "By Sundries."

Journal (1903-1926)

This journal covers the period May 1 903-February 1911, with additional entries from May
1917, December 1925, and February 1926. Chronological entries provide information about
transactions posted to various accounts and recorded in the corporate ledger. The journal is a
partial record and does not provide information about all of the posted transactions. The entries
from February 1911 detail the sale of the company's property rights to Thomas A. Edison, Inc.,
for $200,000 in stock. The entries from 1 917 are in the form of directors' minutes and indicate the
sale of the company's stock in Thomas A. Edison, Inc., and the purchase of outstanding New
Jersey Patent Co. stock from Edison and his wife, Mina Miller Edison.

New Jersey Patent Company Records
Minutes (1903-1906)

This folder consists of unbound minutes of the New Jersey Patent Co.
Included are minutes of the organizational meeting of May 14, 1903; copies of
the certificate of incorporation and bylaws; and directors' and stockholders'
minutes through February 5, 1906.

All of the documents have been selected.

1 Pirst meeting of the incorporators of the New Jersey Patent

2 Company held at the office of Howard W. Hayes, No. 763

Broad Street

3 in the City of Newark, on this fourteenth day of May, 1903

at ten

4 o'clock in the forenoon.

5 Present

6 William Pelzer

7, Prederick C. Pisoher

8 Louis M. Sande ra

9 The meeting was oalled to order and Louis M. Sanders

10 was elected chairman of the meeting and Perderick C. Pis-

oher

11 secretary.

12 A waiver of notice of first meeting signed by all the

13 incorporators was presented and read at the meeting and on

14 motion was ordered to be spread upon the minutes.

15 Waiver of notice iB as follows:-

16 WAIVER OP NOTICE OP MEETING OP INCORPORATORS.

17 We the undersigned being all the incorporators of The "Nw

"New Jersey

18 Patent Company", hereby waive notice of the time, place and

purpose

19 of the first meeting of the incorporators of said Company,

■ and

20 do fix the fourteenth day of May, 1903, at ten o'clock in

the

21 forenoon as the time and the principal office of the said

Company

22 as the place of said meeting. And we hereby waive all the

23 rquirements of the statutes of New/ Jersey as to notice of

said

24 meeting and the publication thereof and consent to the

transaction

25 of such business as may come before the meeting.

26 Dated May 14 , 1903 William Pelzer

27 Prederick C. Pischer

28 Louis M. Sanders

1 A duly certified copy of the certificate of organiza¬

tion YfU3

2 then presented to the meeting and read and on motion was

3 ordered to ho spread at length upon the minutes.

4 The certificate of organization is as follows:-

5 This, is to oertify that We, William Pelzer, Frederick C.

6 Fisoher and Louis If. Banders, do hereby associate ourselves

into a

7 corporation, by virtue of the provisions of an act of the

Legislature of

8 New Jersey entitled "An Act Concerning Corporations"

(revision of 1896)

9 approved April 21st, 1896, and the several supplements

thereto for the

10 purposes hereinafter mentioned, and to that end we do by

this our

11 certificate set forth

12 FI rot : The name of the corporation is:

13 "NEW JERSEY PATENT COMPANY"

14 Second: The location of the principal office in this

State is at

15 the comer of Valley Road and Lakeside Avenue in the Town¬

ship of

16 West Orange, in the County of Essex.

17 The name of the agent therein and in charge thereof

18 upon process against the corporation may be served is John

19 F. Randolph.

Third: The objects for which this corporation is formed

are to

apply for, obtain, register, purchase or otherwise acquire,
and to feh&d, own,

use, operate, Bell, assign, or otherwise dispose of any and
all in¬
vent ionB, improvements and processes and letters patent
therefor and

any and all formulae, secret processes, trade marks, trade
names

and distinctive marks in the United States and other
Countries, and

to ubb, exercise, grant licenses in respect of or otherwise
turn to

account any and all such inventions, improvements, process¬
es. letters

patent, formulae, secret peoesses, trade marks, trade

names,

8
9

20
21
22

and distinctive marks, and to do any and all things nec¬
essary

or useful for the purpose of oarrying out the foregoing ob-
j ects in any

part of thw world as principal, agent, trustee, or other¬
wise.

fourth: The total arrount of the capital stock is

Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.)

the number of shares into which the same is divided is one
hundred

(100) and the pair value of each share is one hundred dol¬
lars ($100.)

The amount with which said corporation will commence

business is One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.) which is divid¬
ed into ten

(10) shares of the par vakue of One hundred dollars ($100.)
eaoh.

Eifth: The names and residences of the incorporators and

the

number of shares subscribed for by each, are as follows
NAMES P. 0. ADDRESS NO. OE SHARES

William Pelzer New York, N.Y. four shares

Erederick C. Eischer Newark, N. J. three shares

Louis M. Sanders Washington, D.C. three shares

IN WITNESS WHEREOE, We have hereunto set our hands and
seals

the twenty-third day of April, One thousand nine hundred
and three.

Signed, Sealed and Delivered )

in the presence of ) William Pelzer (LS.)

Howard W. Hayes Ered'k C. Eischer (LS.)

Louis M, Sanders (LS.)

State of New Jersey )

) ss.

County of Essex ) Be it remembered that on this

twenty -third

day of April in the year of Our Lord One j

thousand nine hundred and three, before me'the subscriber,
a Master in

1 Chancery of New Jersey, personally appeared William Pelzer

2 Frederick C. Fischer and Louis H. Sandersm who, I am satis¬

fied

3 are the persons named in and who executed the foregoing

4 Certificate of Incorporation, and I hairing first made

known to

5 them the contents thereof, they severally acknowledged that

they

6 signed, sealed and (faeiixaxral executed the same as their

voluntary act and

7 deed, for the uses and purposes therein expressed,

8 Howard W. Hayes,

9 Master in Chancery

10 of New Jersey.

11 Endorsed:

12 "Received and recorded in the office of the Clerk

of the

13 County of Essex this 24th day of April 1903.

14 Book 27 of Incor. Bus. Co. page 33.

15 Arthur Ho rt on,

16 Clerk"

17 "Filed Apr. 25, 1903.

18 S. D. Dickinson,

19 Secretary of State."

20 The following By-Laws were then presented to the meeting

and

21 read and discussed section by section and adopted unani¬

mously. On

22 motion they were ordered to be spread at length upon the

minut es .

23 BY-LAWS

Dlg'set o rs 26

"NEW JERSEY PATENT COMPANY"

The number of directors shall be three of whom two

shall be a quorum. They shall be ejected by the stock¬
holders ;

at their regular annual meeting and shall hold office
one year

1 and until their suoceBBors shall he elected.

2 -2-

3 The officers of the Company shall he a President, a Vioe

4 President, a Secretary and Treasurer, who shall he eleoted

5 the Board of Directors and shall hold their respective

offices for one

6 year and Until their successors shall he elected.

■B -3-

8 The Board of Directors shall appoint such other minor

9 offioera and agents as they shall deem advisable and may

/ delegate

10 the power to the General Manager.

11 -4-

12 The Board of Directors shall fix the salaries of the

officers

13 and agents of the Company.

14 * -5-

15 Vacancies among the officers or directors shall he filled

16 hy the Board of Directors.

17 -6-

18 Tho Board of Directors shall regularly meet on the

19 first Monday of the month of May, August, November and

Pebruary in each year

20 Special Meet ings shall he called hy the President at the

21 request of two directors and ten days notice shall he given

of the same

22 The meetings within this state shall he held at West Orange

23 At the meetings the order of business shall he:

24 1. Roll Call

25 2. Reading of Minutes

26 3. Report of Standing Committee.;?

27 4. Report of Special Committees

28 5. Unfinished business

29 6. New Business

Stockhold- 3
ers

Meetings 4

8
9

Treasur- 11
er' s

Bond 12

Stock 15

Certifi¬
cate 10

18
19

Dividends 20
21

Seal 23

By-Laws 26

7. Adjournment.

-7-

An annual meeting of stockholders fior the election of
Directors shall ho held at West Orange, N.J., on the first
Monday of May in each year at twelve o'clock noon
and the polls shall remain open one hour.

Notice of such meeting shall be given by the secretary

by mailing a notice to each stockholder at least five days
before

each meeting.

-8-

The T rat| surer shall give a bond to the Company in such

sum and with such Bifficient sureties as shall be approved
by

the Board of Directors.

-9-

Stock of the Company shall be transferred only on the
stock Certificate Book of the Company and shall be signed
by the President and Treasurer and the corporate seal shall
be affixed thereto.

-10-

Dividends of the net profits of the Company may be

deolared from time to time by the Directors in their dis¬
cretion.

-11-

The seal of the Company shall bear the corporate name of

the Company with a suitable device and the words "Incorpor¬
ated 1903“

-12-

The By-Laws may be altered or amended by a
two-thirds vote of thoso present at any regular or special
meeting of the Board of Directors,

1 Moved and seconded that the meeting proceed to the elec¬

tion

2 ofl directors of the Corporation to serve for the ensuing

year

3 and until their successors are elected.

4 Motion carried unanimously.

5 The meeting then proceeded to the election of directors

and

6 the following persons were unanimously elected.

7 William Pelzer

8 Frederick C. Fischer

9 Louis M. Sanders

10 Moved and seconded that the directors he authorized

11 to levy an assessment of 100 per cent on the capital stock

12 already sub scribed for.

13 Motion carried unanimously.

14 Moved and seconded that the directors of the corporation

15 have power from time to time to issue the stock of the Com¬

pany

16 up to the amount authorized by the certificate of organiza¬

tion

17 in their discretion, either for cash or for property pur¬

chased,

18 and to purchase such patents, patent rights, trade mark sip

19 trade names, seoret processes, formulae and inventions

either

20 for cash or by the issue of such stock aB they may deem

21 advisable.

22 Motion carried unanimously.

23 On motion the meeting then adjourned.

24 Frederick C. Fischer,

25 Secretary.

1 First meeting of the directors of the "New Jersey Patent

Company"

2 held this eighteenth day of May, 1903, at ten o'clock in

the forenoon

3 in the office of Howard W. Hayes, 765 Broad Street, Newark

N. J.

4 pursuant to notioe,

5 Present

6 William Pelzer

7 Frederick C. Fisoher

8 louis M. Sanders

9 The meeting was oalled to order and Louis M. Sanders
10 was chosen chairman and Frederick C. Fischer Secretary.

11 Moved and seconded that the meeting proceed to the elec¬

tion

12 of officers for the ensuing year.

13 Motion carried.

The meeting then proceeded to the election of officers
and the

following were elected.

Louis M. Sanders
William Pelzer
Frederick C. Fischer

President
Vice President
Secretary and Treasurer

The statutory oath was then administered to the
Secretary.

Moved and seconded that an assessment of one
hundred per cent he levied on the stock already subscribed
Motion carried.

The treasurer then reported that an assessment

assessment

1 of one hundred per cent on the stock already subscribed had

2 been paid in full.

3 Moved and seconded that the Treasurer be authorized

4 to purchase the necessary books and stationery and to de¬

fray

5 the expense of incorporation.

6 Mot ion oarried.

7 The following resolution was then presented and on motion

8 duly seconded was unanimously adopted.

9 "Resolved that the Treasurer be authorized to

10 "dispose of the stook in the treasury of the Coiuxiany

11 "at par, first offering it to the present stock-

12 "holders of the Company in proportion to their

13 "respective holdings.",

14 Louis H. Sanders then tendered his resignation

15 as President and director of the Company to take effect at

the

&6 adjournment of the present meeting.

17 On motion his resignation was accepted.

18 Moved and seconded that the Board proceed to the

19 election of a director to fill the vacancy in the board

20 Mot ion carried.

21 The meeting then proceeded to the election of a director

22 to fill the vacancy in the board and John V. Miller was

23 elected director.

24 Moved and seconded that the meeting proceed to the

25 eleot ion of a President to fill the vacancy caused by

26 the resignation of Louis M. Sanders.

27 Mot ion oarried.

X She mooting then proceeded to the election of a

2 President and John V. Miller was elected President.

3 William Pelzer then tendered hia resignation as

4 Vice President and direotor of the Company, to take effect

5 on the adjournment of the present meeting.

6 On Motion Mr, Pelzer's resignation as Vioe President

7 and direotor was accepted.

8 Moved and seconded that the meeting proceed to

9 the election of a direotor to fill the vacancy in the

10 Board caused by the resignation of Mr. Pelzer.

11 Mot ion carried.

12 The meeting then proceeded to the election of a

13 director to fill the vacancy in the Board and Howard

14 W. Hayes was duly elected director.

15 Moved and seconded that the meeting proceed to the

16 election of a Vice President, to fill the vacancy caused

17 by the resignation of Mr. Pelzer.

18 Mot ion carried.

19 The meeting then proceeded to the election of a

20 Vice President and Howard W. Hayes was duly elected

21 Vioe President .

22 Prederick C. Pischer then tendered his resignation

23 as Secretary and Treasurer and director of the Company

24 to take effect on the adjournment of the present meeting

25 On motion his resignation was aooapted.

X Moved and seconded that the Board prooeed to the

2 election of a director to fill the vacancy in the Board

3 Motion carried.

4 The mooting than proceeded to the election of a

6 director to fill tho vacancy in the Board and John

6 F. Randolph wa3 elected director.

7 Moved and seconded that the meeting proceed to

8 the Election of a Secretary and Treasurer to fill the

9 vacancy caused hy the resignation of Mr. Fischer.

10 Motion carried.

11 The meoting then proceeded to the election of a

12 Secretary and Treasurer and John F. flandolph was elected

13 Secretary end Treasurer.

14 On motion the meeting adjourned.

15 Fred’M C. Fi sober.

16 Secretary.

X Special Meeting of the Board of Directors

2 -of t he-

S Hew Jersey Patent Company.

4 Held at the office of the Company on Monday June 22,1903

5 at throe o'clock P. M.

6 Present: Howard W. Hayeo and J. P. Bandolph, a majority

7 of the Board of Directors.

8 The Vice President, Howard W. Hayes, in the chair.

9 On motion duly seconded and unanimously carried the

Treasurer

10 was authorized to open a Bank acoount in the name Oi the

11 Compary, and that all checks, araftB and notes drawn hy the

12 Company should he signed hy him.

13 There being no further business u on motion duly seconded

14 the meeting adjourned.'

15 J. B. Bandolph

Seoretary .

SpeoiaX Meeting of the Board of Directors

2 -of the-

3 Hew Jersey Patent Company.

4 Held at the office of the Company on August 31st, 1903

5 at eleven thirty o'clock A. .M.

6 Present:- Howard W. Hayes and J. P. Bandolph a majority

7 of the Board.

8 The Vice-President, Howard W. Hayes, in the chair.

9 Upon motion duly seconded and unanimously carried the

10 following resolution was adopt ed:-

11 "RESOLVED, that William E. Gilmore, of the City of Orange

12 Hew Jersey, he and he hereby is authorised to execute in

13 the name and on behalf of the New Jersey Patent Company,

14 a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Hew

15 Jersey, licenses under any Patents owned in whole or in

16 part by the said corporation, or under which it holds

17 licenses to such persons or corporations, and under such

18 terms as he may deem advisable."

There being no further business upon motion
duly seconded the meeting adjourned.

J. P. Randolph,

Secretary.

1 Special Meeting of the Board of Directors

2 -of the-

3 New Jersey Patent Company

4 Hold at the office of the Company on September 11th, 1903
at twelve

6 o'clock noon pursuant to notice.

6 Present:- Mesons. John V. Miller and J. P. Randolph

7 The President in the Chair.

8 The Secretary reported that the purpose of this meeting

was t,o

9 elect a direotor to fill the vacancy in the Board caused by

the

10 resignation of Howard W. Hayes.

11 On motion duly made and seconded and by the affirmative

13 vote of all present William 35. Oilmore was regularly nomi¬

nated

13 and duly eleoted Director and Vioe-President to fill the

vacancy for

14 the unexpired ten.

15 There being no further business upon motion duly seconded

16 the meeting adjourned?

17 J. P. Randolph,

Secretary.

1 Special Koeting

2 Special mooting of the board of directors of the New

3 Jersey Patent Company held this twenty-sixth day of

4 January i nineteen hundred and six, at the laboratory

5 of Thomas A. Edison, at four o’clock in the afternoon

6 pursuant to notice.

7 Present

8 John V. Hiller

9 John 7?. Randolph

10 Ur. John V. ’filler, the President, presided as

11 chairman of the meeting.

12 Mr. John P. Randolph the Secretary, then read the

13 copy of the notice sent to the directors specifying the

14 purpose of this meeting.

15 "West Orange, N.J., Jan. 15th, 1906.

16 Dear Sir:-

17 A special meeting of the hoard of directors of the New

IB Jersey Patent Company will be held on the twenty-sixth

19 day of January, 1906, for the purpose of amending and

20 changing the charter of this Company and pass the

21 necessary preambles and resolutions for the consideration

22 of the stockholders at a meeting to be called them

23 to specially act upon the same.

24 Yours truly,

25 John P. Randolph,

26 Secretary."

X The meeting then proceeded to the discussion of the

2 amendments and changes necessary.

3 It vma on motion duly made and seconded and by the

4 unanimous consent of all present -

5 HESOLVED, That the charter of this Company, dated

6 April 23, 1903, be amended as follows: Insert at the end

7 of Seotion 3, mating the following a part thereof, viz:-

8 -1-

,9 To manufacture, purchase or otherwise acquire

10 goods, wares, merchandise and personal property of every

11 class and descript ion, and to hold, own, mortgage, sell

12 or otherwise dispose of, trade, deal in and deal with

13 the same.

14 -2-

15 To acquire and undertake the goodwill, property,

16 rights, franchise and assets of evejy kind and the liabili-

17 ties of any person, firm, association or corporation,

18 either wholly or partly, and to pay for the same in cash,

19 stock or bonds of the corporation, or otherwise.

20 -3-

21 To enter into, make, perform and carry out contracts

22 of every kind and for any lawful purpose with any person,

23 fin#, association or corporation.

1 -4-

2 To borrow or raise money without limit as to amount

3 by the iesue of or upon debentures or debenture stock, or in

4 such other manner as the corporation shall think fit.

5 -5-

6. To draw, make, endorse, accept, discount, execute,

7 and issue promissory notes, bills of exchange, warrants,

8 bonds, debentures and other negotiable or transf errable in-

9 strunents.

10 -6-

11 To take out patents, acquire those taken out by others,

12 acquire or grant licenses in respect to patents, or work

13 transfer, or do whatever else with them may be thought fit.

14 -7-

15 To conduct business in any of the states, territories,

16 colonies or dependencies of the United States, in the

17 District of Columbia, and in any and all foreign

18 countries, to have one or more offices therein, and to

19 hold, purchase, mortgage and convey real and

20 personal property, without limit as to amount therein,

21 but always subject to the laws thereof.

22 -8 -

23 To remunerate any person or corporation for services

24 rendered, or to be rendered, in placing or assisting to

25 place or guaranteeing the placing of any of the shares

26 of stock of the corporation, or any debentures or other

27 securities of the corporation, or in or about the formation

1 or promotion of the corporation, or in the conduct of its

2 business.

3 -9-

4 Subject to the provisions of law to purchase, hold and

5 re-issue the shares of- its capital stock.

6 -10-

7 To do any or all of the things herein set forth to the

8 same extent as natural persons might or oould do, and

9 in any part of the world.

10 The forfegoing. clauses shall be construed both as objeots

11 and powers.

12 In general, to carry on any other business in connection

13 with the foregoing, whether manufacturing or otherwise,

14 and to have and to exercise all the powers conferred by the

15 laws of New Jersey upon corporations formed under the "Act

16 Concerning Corporations" (revision of 1896) and the acts

17 amendatory thereof and supplemental thereto; it being

18 hereby expressly provided that the foregoing enumeration

19 ofl specific powers shall not be held to limit or restrict

20 in any manner the powers of the corporation.

21 The board of directors shall, in addition to the

22 powers conferred by statute, have power:-

23 -11-

24 To hoi'fl their meetings, to have one. or more offices,

26 and to keep the books of the corporation within or without

X the State of New Jersey, at such places as may befrom time

2 to time designated by them, but the Company shall always

3 keep at its principi.1 and registered office in New Jersey a

4 transfer book in which the transfers of stock can be made
efite entered and registered, and also a stock book containing

6 the names and addresses of the stockholders and the

7 number of shares held by them respectively, which said

8 transfer book and stock book. shall be at all times

9 during business hours open to the inspection of the stock

holders

10 in person. Any stockholder of record shall be entitled

11 to a list of the stockholders, with the addresses

12 thereof and the number of shares held by each respectively

13 upon prepayment to the registered agent in New JsrBey

14 of a reasonable charge for making a copy thereof.

15 -12-

16 Subject as aforesaid, to determine from time to time

17 whether and if allowed, under what conditions and

18 regulations, the accounts and books of the company

19 (other than the stock and transfer hook) or any of them,

20 shall be open to the inspection of the stockholders, and

21 the stockholder's rights in this respect are and shall be

22 restricted or limited accordingly.

23 -13-

24 Without the assent or vote of the stockholders to make,

26 alter, amend and rescind the by-laws of this corporation,

26 1 to fix the amount to be reserved as working capital, to

27 authorize and cause to be executed mortgages and

28 liens without limit as to amount upon the real and

29 personal property of the corporation, provided always,

that a majority of the whole hoard concur therein.

2 -14-

3 With the consent in writing and pursuant also to the

4 affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of the stock

issued

5 and outstanding, at a stockholders' meeting duly called

6 for that purpose, to sell, assign, transfer or otherwise

7 dispose of the property of the corporation as an entirety

8 provided always that a majority of the whole hoard

9 concur therein.

10 -15-

11 If the hy-laws shall so provide, hy resolution,

12 passed hy a majority vote of the whole hoard, to designate

13 two or more of their number to constitute an executive

14 committee, which committee shall for the time being

15 as provided in said resolution or in the hy-laws, have

16 and exercise all the powers of the hoard of directors .which

17 may he lawfully delegated, in the management of

18 the business and affairs of the company, and shall

19 have power to authorise the seal of the corporation

20 to he affixed to all papers which may require it.

21 The corporation reserves the right to amend, alter,

22 or change any provision contained in this certificate

23 of incorporation, in the manner now or hereafter

24 prescribed hy statute and all rights conferred on

25 stockholders herein are granted subject to this

reservat ion.

X WRTH3SR RESOLVED, That a moo tins of

2 to talcfl action upon the foregoing ros

3 to he held at the principal office of

side

4 Avenue and Valley Road, West Orange,

5 the fifth day of February, nineteen ft

6 at eleven A. 15.

7 There being no further business the

8 adjourned.

the stockholders
olut ion be called
the Company at Lake-
New Jersey, on
undred and six,

meeting

Secretary.

6
7

10
11

20
21
22

Special meeting of the New Jersey Patent Company
held this fifth day of Pebruary, 1906, at the laboratory of
Thomas A. Edison at eleven A. U. pursuant to notice.

Present

John V. Hiller
John P. Bandolph
William E. Gilmore

The President called the meeting to order at eleven
o ' clock

The Secretary then read the notice sent to the stock¬
holders specifying the purpose of this meeting, a copy of
which notice is as followB:-

"West Orange, N.J., Jan. 26, 1906.

Dear Sir:-

A special meeting of the at ockholde rs of the New
Jersey Patent Company will be held on the fifth day of
Pebruary, 1906, for the purpose of taking action on the
amendments and changes to the charter and by-laws
of this Company, which amendments and changes
have been reoommended by resolution of the board
of directors at a meeting held on the twenty-sixth day of
January, 1906; and for such other business as may
come before the meeting at that time.

Yours respectfully,

John P. Bandolph

Secretary.

adopted by the

The Secretary then read the resolution
board of

directors at their meeting hold January 2.0, , 1906, which is

particularly set out
board

ofi directors held on a

Inutes of the meeting of the

After discussing the amendments and changes to the
charter

section for section, it wa3

8 That the resolutions embodying the amendments

9 suggested by the directors, be and the same are hereby a-

dopt ed

10 and ejiproved, and the following named stockholders

11 William 33. Gilmore, John ]?. Randolph and John V. Miller,

12 being all stockholders and owning all the stock of the

corporation

13 signed their written assent to such changes and amendments.

14 There being no further business the meeting adjourned.

Secretary,

1 Annual meet lng of the stookhol dors of the j>T e\i Jersey

2 Patent Company hold this fifth dan of February, 1906, at

the

3 Laboratory of Thomas A. Edison, corner Lakeside Avenue and

4 Valley Road, at On® o'clock P. M. , pursuant to notice.

5 The meeting was called to order by William E. Gilmore

6 who, upon motion, was unanimously chosen chairman, and

7 Mr. Randolph was appointed Secretary of the meeting.

8 The Secretary then stated that Mr. John V. Miller

9 had this day transferred his st, ock in this Company to Mr?

10 Thomas A. Edison.

11 Upon motion duly made and seconded, it was

12 RESOLVED ,

13 That the time within which sjrock can be

14 transferred ypon the books of the Company be and the same
16 is hereby waived, and that Mr. Edison be and he Aa hereby

16 entitled to vote the number of shares he now holds.

17 Mot ion carried.

18 The Secretary then read the roll of stockholders entitled

19 to vote at thfcomeeting with the following result

20 RARE NO. OP SHARES

21 Thomas A. Edison 30 shares

22 John P. Randolph 30 "

23 William E. Gilmoi

1 being all the stockholders in interest holding all the

stock

2 issued and outstanding of the Company.

3 The Secretary presented and read a copy of notice of

4 the meeting with proof of the due mailing thereof to each

stock-

5 holder of the Company at least five day3 before the meeting

6 required by the by-laws.

7 The stock book of the Company, together with a full

8 true and complete list in alphabetical order of all the

9 stockholders entitled to vote at the ensuing election,

10 with the residences of each and the number of shares

11 held by each , were produced and remained during

12 the election open to inspection.

13 Upon motion duly made and seconded the reading

14 of the minuteB of the last annual meeting, together

IB with all the stockholders’ and directors' meeting to the

16 present date, were read and upon motion duly

17 made and seconded and by the unanimous consent

18 of all the stockholders presont,i t was

19 HBSOIiVKD, That the actions taken and the resolut ions

20 passed and a doptsd, and the contracts entered into by

21 the stockholders and the board of directors and the offi¬

cers

22 from the date of the last annual m eting of the stock-

23 holders to this date be and the same are hereby ratified

24 adopted and confirmed.

1 Upon motion duly made and seconded Messrs. William

2 Seize r sr-d John B. Helm Wfo appointed ins; actors of elec¬

tion

3 and duly s'vo rn .

4 The following By-laws vrero then prasonted to the

5 meeting and after being discussed section by sect icn , it

6 was, on motion duly mads and seconded and by the

7 unanimous -vote of all present, RESOLVED, that the By-Laws

8 as presented, he and they hereby are adopted and that

9 all other By-Laws inconsistent therewith be rescinded

10 The By-Laws are as’ follows

11 BY- LAV/S OB THE NEW JERSEY PATENT COMPANY.

12 All meetings of stockholders shall be held at the

13 corner of Lakeside Avenue and Valley Hoad, West Orange

14 the registered office, in New Jersey.

Stockhold-J-5 A majority of the Bftockh.tJiflued and outstanding
ers

Meetings l6 represented by the holders thereof, either in person or by

17 proxy shall be a quorum at all meetings of stockholders.

18 The annual meeting of stockholders, after the year 1906,

19 shall be held on the second Monday of .Tune, in each

20 year at ten o'clock in the forenoon, when they shall

21 elect, by a plurality vote, by ballot, the board of direc¬

tors

22 as constituted by these by-laws, each stockholder being

23. entitled to one vote in person or by proxy, for each
24 share of stock standing registered in his or her name

26 on the twentieth day preceding the election, exclusive of
the

26 day of such election.

I Kot ice of the annual mealing shill be mailed to each

£ stocfchold oz' at hlJj o c her address as the same app are upon

S the. ro corcls of the oorapaiy at least ten days prior to the

mooting.

4 At Much annual meeting, if a majority of the stock

5 shall not be represented, tho stockholders present shall

have

6 power to adjourn to a day certain, and notice of the m et-

ing

7 of the adjourned day shell be given by dopo3iting the same

8 in the post-office addressed to each stockholder at least

9 five days before such adjourned meet ing, exclusive of the

10 day of mailing, but if a majority of the stock be present

II in person or by proxy, they shall have po e’er from time

12 to time to adjourn the annual meeting to any subsequent

13 day or days, and no notice of the adftoufcned mooting need

14 be given.

15 Special meetings of the stockholders shall, at the
10 request of a majority of. the directors, be called by the
17 secretary by mai ling a notice at at ing the object of

18 such mee ting, at least two days prior to the data of

19 meeting, to each stockholder of reoord at his address

20 as the same appears on tho records of the company.

Directors 21
22

The directors, three in number, shall be chosen from
the stockholders and shall hold office for one year or
until others are elected and qualified in their stead.
Tho number of directors may be increased or decreased
by amendment of this provision of the by-laws.

A majority of the
quo ru$

for th* transact ion of Vci)

s!;all constitute a

Director's3 Meetings of the hoard may he called hy the president on

Meetings;

Quorum. 4 one day's notice hy mail or personally to each director.

5 The directors may hold their meetings and have an

6 office and keep the hooks of the company (except the stock

7 and transfer hooks) outside of tho State of 3Tew Jersey.

Powers of 9.
Directors

The hoard of directors shall have the management of the
business of the company, and may, subject to the provisions

of the statute, of the charter and these by-la?/s, exercise
all such

powers and do all such things as may he exercised or done
hy the corporation.

Executive 43
Committee

There may he an executive committee appointed hy the
hoard who shall meet when they see fit . They shall have

authority to oxnroise all the powers of the hoard at any
time

when the hoard is not in session.

Officers. 18
19

At the first meeting after the annual election of direc¬
tors

when there shall he a quorum, the hoard of directors shall
elect a. president and vice-president from their own number
who shall hold office for one year and, until his successor
is appointed and qualified.

22 The hoard shall also annually choose a secretary

23 and a treasurer, who need not he a member of the hoard,

24 who shall hold offioe for one year, subject to removal

at any time

1 by the board with or without cause. The board

2 may also appoint and remove suoh other offioers and agents

3 as they deem proper.

President 4

Vice- 9
President

The president shall be the chief executive officer, and

head of the company, and in the recess of the board of

directors and of the executive committee shall have general

control and management of its business and affairs

He shall, with the treasurer, Bign all certificates of
stock.

The vice-president shall perform all duties of the pre¬
sident

in his absence.

11 The secretary shall be: ex-officio clerk of the board of

12 directors and of the standing committees; he shall attend

13 all sessions of the board, and shall record all votes

14 and the minutes of all proceedings in a book to be

15 kept for that purpose.

16 He shall give notice of all calls for instalments to

17 be paid by the stockholders, and shall see that proper

notioe

18 is given of all meetings of the stockholders and of the

19 board of directors.

20 He shall be sworn to the faithful discharge of his

21 duty and shall perform such duties as may be

22 required by the board of directors or the president.

The 24
Treasurer

The treasurer shall keep full and accurate accounts
of receipts and disbursements in books belonging to
the company and shall deposit all moneys and
other valuable effeots in the name and to the
credit of the company in such depositories as

1 may be designated by the President or the board of direc¬

tors.

2 He shall disburse the funds of the Company as may

3 be ordered by the President or the board, taking proper

vouchers

4 for such disbursements, and shall render to the president

5 and directors at the regular meetings of the board, and

6 whenever they may require it, account of all his tranBao-

t ions

7 as treasurer and of the financial condition of the comjjany

8 He shall, with the president, sign all certificates of

stock.

Treasurer'S The Treasurer shall give a bond to the Company

Bond

10 for the faithful discharge of his duties in such sum

11 and with such surety as the board may require.

12 If the office of any director or member of the exe-
Vacancles 13 cutive committee, or of the president, vice-president,

14 secretary or treasurer, one or more, becomes vacant,

15 by reason of death, resignation, disqualification or

16 otherwise, the remaining directors, although less

17 than a quorum, by a majority vote, may elect a

18 successor or successors, who shall hold offloe for

19 the unexpired tern.

Duties of go In case of the absence of an officer of the company,
Officers

May I56 21 or for any other reason that may seem sufficient to

Delegated

22 the board, the board of directors may delegate his

23 power and duties for the time being to any other

24 officer, or to any director.

Fiscal 26

The fiscal year of the company Bhall begin the

Year.

26 first day of March in each year.

1 Dividends upon the capital stock of the company when

2 earned shall he payable at such times as the hoard of

3 directors may deem advisable.

Dividends 5
6

10
11
12

Before payment of any dividends or making any

distribution of profits, there may be set aside out of the
net

profits of the company such sun or sums as the directors
from time to time in their absolute discretion think
proper as a reserve fund to meet contingencies, or for
equalizing dividends, or for repairing or maintaining
qny property of the company, or for any other such
purpose as the directors shall think conducive to the
interests of the company.

Waiver of 13 Any stockholder or director may waive any notice
Notice

14 required to be given under these by-laws.

The stockholders by the vote of a majority of the stock
issued and outstanding, may at any annual or special
meeting alter, or amend thBae by-laws if notioe thereof
be contained in the notice of the meeting.

The board of directors by a vote of the majority members
may alter or amend these by-laws at any time provided
three days' notioe in writing shall have been givon,to each
of the directors of the proposed amendment, or the same
may be amended at any regular or special meeting
of the board without notice, provided all the directors
are present and consent unanimously to
any proposed amendment.

1 Upon motion duly made and aeoonded the meeting

2 proceeded to the nomination and election of three directors

3 by ballot , in accordance with the by-laws and the

4 polls were opened at one fifteen P. M. and the stock-
6 holders prepared their billots and delivered them to

6 the inspectors.

7 After all the ballots had been cast the inspectors

8 reported the following result: That there had been

9 three ballots oast representing one hundred shares of stool:

10 being all the oapital stock of the Company issued and

11 put standing; that the ballots had been oast for

12 Thomas A. Edison, 'William E. Gilmore and John E.

13 Randolph; and that each of said stockholders

14 received one hundred votes.

15 The chairman then declared Messrs. Thomas

16 A. Edison, William E. Gilmore and John E. Randolph

17 elected directors to serve for the ensuing year and

18 until their suooeBsora should be elected.

19 On motion the meeting adjourned to Monday

20 the 19th day of Eebruary, at eleven A. M.

21
22

Secretary.

1 Meeting of the hoard of directors of the New Jersey

2 Patent Company held this fifth day of Pehrrary, 1906, at

the

3 laboratory of Thomas A. Edison, corner lakeside Avenue and

4 Valley Road, at two o'clock in the afternoon, for the pur¬

pose

5 of organizing the hoard of directors and electing officers

6 for the ensuing year.

7 Hr. William E. Gilmore presided as temporary chairman

8 of the meeting and Mr. John E. Randolph as temporary

9 Secretary of the meeting.

10 The chairman oalling the meeting to order stated

11 its purpose.

12 It was moved that the meeting proceed to the

13 election of officers to serve for the ensuing year and

until

14 their sucoeesorB should he elected or chosen.

16 On motion Mr. Thomas A. Edison was nominated

16 for President.

17 There being no other nominations the nominations

18 were ordered closed and the Secretary was instructed to

19 cast the ballot .

20 He reported that Mr. Thomas A. Edison had

21 received all the votes.

22 The chairman then declared Mr. Thomas A.

23 Edison unanimously elected President of the Company

24 to serve for the ensuing year and until his

1 successor shoxild be chosen.

2 On motion Mr. William IS. Gilmore was nominated &ax.

3 for Vico President.

4 There being no other nominations the nominations

5 were ordered olosed and the Secretary was instructed to

6 cast the ballot .

7 He reported that Mr. William E. Gilmore had received

8 all the votes.

9 The chairman then declared Mr. William E. Gilmore

10 unanimously elected Vice-President of the Company

11 to serve for the snsuing year and until his successor

12 should be elected.

13 On motion Mr. «Tohn P. Randolph was nominated

14 for Treasurer.

15 There being no other nominat ions the nominations
15 were ordered closed and the Secretary was instructed

17 jto oast the ballot.

18 He reported that Mr. John P. Randolph had received

19 all the votes.

20 The chairman then declared Mr. John P. Randolph

21 unanimously eleoted Treasurer of the Company to

22 serve for the ensuing year and until his successors

23 should be chosen v*.

X On mot ion duly made and seconded the chairman

2 was requested to appoint a Secretary to hold office at the

3 pleasure of the heard of directors.

4 The chairman' then appointed Mr. Alphonse West ee

5 Secretary of the Company to hold office at the pleasure of

6 the hoard of directors. '

7 There being no further business the meeting adjourned

8 to meet on the 19th day of February, 1906.

Secretary,

New Jersey Patent Company Records
Letterbook (1908-1910)

This letterbook covers the period February 1 908-June 1910 It contains
four letters signed by Edison as president of the New Jersey Patent Co. and
two letters by Harry F. Miller, secretary and treasurer. One of Edison's letters
agrees to pay Jonas W. Aylsworth $20,000 and Walter H. Miller $10,000 for
making a commercially viable eight-minute record. The front cover is marked
1 908 1 91 0 N.J. Patent Co." The spine is stamped "Letters" and "3." The book
contains 298 numbered pages; it has been used to page 7.

All of the documents have been selected.

IT E W JERSEY PATENT C OK? A IT Y

Orange, w. J., Pet. 19,1903

A Rational Bank,

Newark, Nc J.

At a special meriting of the Board of Directors of this
eld Feb. 17, 1903, Hr. Harry 3?. Miller was elected
of the r.oir.j'a ay, to take the plo.ee of Mr. John ?. Randolph
and lir. Jno. ?. Miller was elected Assistant Treasurer;

allowing resolution was adopted:

VTCU, that on and after the 13 th day of February, 1908,
d notes drawn by the New Jersey Patent Ooaroany 3hail be
H. F. Miller as Treasurer, or by J V. Miller as
Treasurer, and countersigned bv the President or Vice-

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New Jersey Patent Company Records
Ledger (1903-1926)

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entries from 1917, 1925, and 1926. As the account book of final entry, it
summarizes transactions pertaining to the business of the New Jersey Patent
Co. Separate accounts detail cash, general expense, experimental, and patent
transactions. Included are accounts with Edison, patent attorneys, and other
individuals and companies. Edison's account covers the period June 1903-
December 1910, with two additional entries from 1 91 7. The entry for February
27, 1909, includes a $5,000,000 credit to Edison, indicated as "By Sundries."
The front cover is labeled "Ledger N.J. Patent Co." The book contains 138
numbered pages and an index; many pages are blank.

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Journal (1903-1926)

This journal covers the period May 1 903-February 1911, with additional
entries from May 1917, December 1925, and February 1926. Chronological
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directors' minutes and indicate the sale of the company's stock in Thomas A.
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NORTH JERSEY PAINT COMPANY RECORDS

The North Jersey Paint Co. was organized in April 1 908. It was a New
Jersey corporation concerned primarily with the manufacture and sale of
waterproof paint for use with cement. Walter S. Mallory served as the
company's president; William H. Mason, superintendent of the Edison
Portland Cement Co. and later the inventor of Masonite, was secretary-
treasurer. Edison held the majority of issued stock. The company was based
in Stewartsville, New Jersey, the site of the Edison Portland Cement Co.
plant, and had a sales office in New York City. The records cover the years
1908-1918. They consist of two ledgers, a daybook, and a cash book.

The selected records are arranged in the following order: (1) Ledger
(1908-1910); (2) Ledger (1911-1918); and (3) Daybook (1908-1918). One
cash book covering the period 1908-1918 has not been selected.

Ledger (1908-1910)

This ledger covers the period May 1908-December 1910. As the account book of final
entry, it summarizes transactions pertaining to the business of the North Jersey Paint Co.
Separate accounts detail cash, general expense, sales, and other transactions. Included are
accounts with Edison, the Edison Portland Cement Co., and other individuals and companies.

Ledger (1911-1918)

Daybook (1908-1918)

This daybook covers the period May 1908-December 1918. Chronological entries provide
information about transactions posted to various accounts and recorded in the general ledgers.

Cash Book (1908-1918) [not selected]

This cash book covers the period July 1908-January 1918. Chronological entries provide
information about transactions posted to the cash account.

North Jersey Paint Company Records
Ledger (1908-1910)

This ledger covers the period May 1 908-December 1 91 0. As the account
book of final entry, it summarizes transactions pertaining to the business of the
North Jersey Paint Co. Separate accounts detail cash, general expense, sales,
and other transactions. Included are accounts with Edison, the Edison Portland
Cement Co., and other individuals and companies. The front cover is stamped
"Ledger The North Jersey Paint Co." The book contains 136 numbered pages
and an index; some pages are blank.

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1918" and "3-25. "The spine is marked "3" and "25." The pages are numbered,
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Daybook (1908-1918)

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accounts and recorded in the general ledgers. Page headings indicate that this
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The cover is stamped "Day-Book The North Jersey Paint Co." The book
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PRIMARY PRINTED SERIES

This collection contains printed documents issued by both Edison and
non-Edison companies. Although the bulk of the material consists of
promotional brochures, there are also official reports, instruction manuals,
catalogs, lists of equipment and devices, and reprints of scholarly
papers. The items selected indicate specifications for, or improvements in,
various Edison products; provide instructions for their sale or use; describe
unusual promotions; exemplify strategies for marketing; or document the
commercial activities of Edison's employees, business partners, and
subsidiaries. Other printed promotional material can be found in the National
Phonograph Company Records, Edison Storage Battery Company Records,
and other record groups in the Company Records Series.

In addition to publishing occasional brochures, most of Edison's
companies issued serial publications. These included a succession of
phonograph-related serials published by the National Phonograph Co. and the
Edison Business Phonograph Co.— The Phonogram, The New Phonogram,
Edison Phonograph Monthly, and Tips— as well as The Kinetogram, issued by
the Edison Manufacturing Co., and The Edison Aggregate, published by the
Edison Portland Cement Co. Sample issues of each publication have been
selected with the exception of Tips and the Edison Phonograph Monthly, for
which longer runs have been selected in order to include news, feature stories,
and promotional material about Edison and his products.

Approximately 1 0 percent of the documents have been selected. The
selected items are listed in the accompanying bibliography. The unselected
material consists mainly of promotional brochures that provide routine
information about the Edison product being advertised; most publications by
non-Edison companies; and duplicate copies of selected items. In addition, film
catalogs and phonograph record catalogs have generally not been selected.
The film catalogs can be found in Thomas A. Edison Papers Microfilm Edition:
Motion Picture Catalogs by American Producers and Distributors, 1894-1908.
The information contained in the record catalogs is available in Allen
Koenigsberg, Edison Cylinder Records, 1889-1912, 2nd ed. (Brooklyn, N.Y.:
APM Press, 1 987) and similar publications.

The documents are arranged in three groups: (1) Printed Material—
Edison Companies; (2) Printed Material — Non-Edison Companies; and (3)
Serial Publications. Within each group, the items are organized alphabetically
by company and then chronologically.

PRINTED MATERIAL — EDISON COMPANIES

Bates Manufacturing Company

"Bates & Edison Automatic Hand Numbering Machines." Form 230. 1904.

Edison Business Phonograph Company

"Souvenir of the Thirtieth Anniversary of the Edison Business Phonograph." 1908.

[Reprint from Office Appliances. July lanfl ]

The Edison Commercial System Conducted with the Business Phonograph " Form
1475. 1908.

"The Edison Commercial System Conducted with the Business Phonograph." Form
1795. 1910.

Edison Manufacturing Company

"Battery Facts. . . for Gas Engine Manufacturers." 1899.

"Edison Primary Batteries and Battery Fan Outfits." Form 128. 1902.

"Edison Primary Batteries." Form 280. 1906.

"Edison Projecting Kinetoscopes." Form 320. 1907.

"The Bulletin of Edison Films for the Week Ending February 20, 1909 " Form 418

1909.

"Edison Projecting Kinetoscopes." Form 470. 1910.

Edison Ore Milling Syndicate, Ltd.

"The Dunderland Iron-Ore Deposits and Mr. Thomas A. Edison's Process." Ca. 1902.
Edison Portland Cement Company

"Works of the Edison Portland Cement Company, Stewartsville, New Jersey." 1902.
"Edison Portland Cement Co., New Village, N.J." Ca. 1909.

Edison Storage Battery Company

"The Edison Storage Battery, 1903." 1904.

"A Few Suggestions for Central Station Managers, Containing Some Advertisements
We Have Used and Are About To Use for the New Edison Storage Battery " Ca

1910.

"The Edison Storage Battery: Useful Information." Form 90. 1910.

"The Edison Storage Battery." Form 75. 1910.

"The 1910 Edison Storage Battery," by Walter Holland. 1910. [Bound with "A Test of
the Edison Storage Battery," by the Electrical Testing Laboratories. Both papers
were read at the annual meeting of the Association of Edison Illuminating
Companies, Thousand Islands, N.Y., September 6-8, 1910.]

National Phonograph Company

"Edison Phonographs, Phonograph Outfits, Phonograph Supplies." Form 49. 1899
"Parts of Phonographs." Form 270. 1901.

"Phonograph Accessories." Form 337. 1902.

"Edison Phonographs.” Form 335. 1902. [With attached "Important Supplement,"

"Jobbers Discount Sheet." Form 355J. 1902.

"Dealers Discount Sheet.” From 387D. 1902.

"Directions for Setting Up and Operating the Edison Home Phonograph." Form 476.

Ca. 1903. [Not selected: similar directions for the Gem, Standard, and Triumph
models.]

"Just Airs: Souvenir of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition." Form 550. Ca. 1904.

"Edison Phonographs." Form 740. 1905.

"Edison Coin-Slot Phonographs." Form 910. 1906.

"How to Install the Edison Commercial System Conducted with the Business
Phonograph." Ca. 1907. [From Scrapbook, Cat. 44,494.]

"Edison Phonographs, Records, Parts, and Accessories: Jobbers' Discounts." Form
1286. 1908.

"Edison Phonographs, Records, Parts, and Accessories: Dealers’ Discounts." Form
1286. 1908.

"Edison Amberol Records: What They Are and How to Play Them on Your
Phonograph." Form 1415. Ca. 1908.

"Information Concerning and Directions for Putting the Combination Attachment on the
Edison Home Phonograph." Form 468A. 1909. [Not selected: similar directions
for the Gem, Standard, and Triumph models.]

"How to Make Records at Home with an Edison Phonograph." Form 1090. Ca. 1910.

"The Edison Phonograph: A Catalogue of Edison Phonographs, Records, Reproducers,
Attachments and Accessories." Form 1780. 1910.

'"My South Polar Expedition' Vividly Told by Lieut. E. H. Shackleton on an Edison
Amberol Record." Form 1801. 1910.

"Jobbers' and Dealers' Discounts and Net Prices on Edison Phonographs, Records,
Accessories and Parts." 1910.

"Parts of Edison Phonographs, Reproducers, and Attachments." 1910.

Primary Printed Series
Bates Manufacturing Company

"Bates & Edison Automatic Hand Numbering Machines." Form 230. 1904.

BATES &
EDISON

Automatic Hand
Numbering
Machines

Bates and Edison
Automatic Hand Numbering
Machines

made at the Edison factories, Orange,
by die Bates Manufacturing Company.
This company has no connection with any con¬
cern of similar name.

The Bates machine receives its name from
its patentee, who sold his rights to Mr. Edison.
These machines rank as the leading devices of
their kind on the market.

The Edison machine is put out to meet the
demand fora lower priced numbering machine
than the Bates. It is the superior of all low
priced machines.

These machines are the only two hand
numbering machines on the market with dial
setting movements.

The Edison guarantee for quality and work¬
manship goes with both machines.

Every properly equipped business system
should , have one or more of these machines;
no system can be complete without one. There
is no business or profession that cannot use
one with advantage and profit. A few of their
many uses are numbering checks, pay-rolls,
orders, tickets, labels, vouchers, invoices, time
cards, time books, prescriptions, etc., etc.,

Bates Manufacturing Co.

Bates Numbering Machines

Built to give perfect service for a lifetime, not to
see how cheaply they can be sold

rpHESE machines are made in three styles:
1 The Bates Automatic Hand Numbering
Machine, the Bates Platform Automatic
Hand Numbering Machine, and the Bates Line
Dating Machine.

Bates Numbering Machines are everywhere
regarded as the standard for quality, both in
construction and the character of work they
perform. No similar device commands so high
a price, and the fact that so many thousands
are yearly sold is. the best possible evidence of
the place accorded them in the business world.
“Almost as good as the Bates” is the best
claim ever made by competing devices.

Bates machines have these points of excel¬
lence: Their workmanship is of the highest
grade; all wearing parts are made of steel; all
working parts are entirely'onclOsed; they work
noiselessly; are perfect in design; simple in
operation; have an entirely automatic action;
do absolutely accurate work; are compact and
light in weight; have improved self-inking
apparatus; there is no loss of space between
the figures. They are guaranteed in every
particular, and with proper care will last a
lifetime and always do good work.

Bates Automatic
Hand Numbering Machine

Bates Line Dating Machine

Net Price, $9.00

Styles of type.

Style J

JAN 1-1974

Style G Style K

AUG 25 1967 NOV 30 1980

Special Figura to Order

Includes bottle of inlc, extra pad, and stylo

rpHIS machine is similar in appearance, size,
A and construction to the Bates Automatic
Hand Numbering Machine. The work¬
manship is of the highest grade. Every wear¬
ing part is made of steel, including the dating
wheels, and all parts receive the finest finish.
The parts are interchangeable to the smallest
screw. The machine weighs about sixteen
ounces, making it light to handle, and yet is
sufficiently solid and firm to ensure speed and
ease in operation. It works with slight fric¬
tion and noiselessly.

Every wheel except the month wheel can be
“thrown out” at will, so that the machine will
register the month, day and year; the month
and year; the month and day, or the month

The inking device is similar to that attached
to the Bates Automatic Numbering Machine,
by which the figures receive ink automatically
from a thick felt pad which is practically in¬
destructible. The machine is equipped with a
gauge plate, which enables the operator to
print an impression on any given line.

Letter Wheels

■YTTE make to order machines having letter
’ * wheels, either preceding or following
the figure wheels. '

The letters will be engraved to match the
figures of the machine in which the letter
wheels are to be mounted.

These letter wheels (which are substituted
for figure wheels) will be furnished at a net
price of $1.00 additional per letter wheel, and
| will be engraved with any number of letters
| to and including nine.

Primary Printed Series
Edison Business Phonograph Company

"Souvenir of the Thirtieth Anniversary of the Edison Business Phonograph."
1 908. [Reprint from Office Appliances July 1 908.]

"The Edison Commercial System Conducted with the Business
Phonograph." Form 1475. 1908.

"The Edison Commercial System Conducted with the Business
Phonograph." Form 1795. 1910.

SOUVENIR OF THE

THIRTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF THE

EDISON BUSIN ESS PHONOGRAPH

CONTAINING A STORY OF THE LIFE OF THE
INVENTOR AND AN ARTICLE ON MAKING
THE EDISON BUSINESS PHONOGRAPH AND
A DESCRIPTION OF THE NEW INVENTION
THE UNIVERSAL ELECTRIC MOTOR

{.Reprinted from Office Appliances for July 1 90S]

MAKING THE

EDISON BUSINESS PHONOGRAPH

By FRANK E . TUPPER

EASTERN MANAGER FOR OFFICE APPLIANCES

A Trip Through the Orange, N. J., Factory, Where the Marvelous
Voice Writing Machines are Built

THE celebrated English literateur, Dean
Swift, said that the man who , makes two
blades of grass grow where one grew before
deserves well of his kind. Had Swift Jiyed '
in the present generation, where it is not unusual
to find men growing two blades where but one
had been before, it is probable diat he would have
.made better provision for acknowledgment due
such a man as Thomas A. Edison, the great
inventor, who has done more than any other man
to advance the American nation in the commercial
world. Here indeed is a man who has made'
several blades grow where none had previouly
existed.

That a man could start out-in life with scarcely
any education, apart from that picked up at his
home, and, thrown upon his own resources when f
but a mere child, develop from newspaper vendor
to publisher, to. telegraph operator and then to
inventor of some of the most widely used products
in the world, seems little short, of miraculous.
Yet that,, in brief, is the story of Thomas Alva
Edison, “the wizard of Menlo Park,” acknowl¬
edged the greatest living inventor and the man
who originated and perfected the Edison' Business
Phonograph.

Had a royalty been offered Edison for inven¬
tions of direct commercial value it is exceedingly
improbable that we would have been favored with
more in this line; With scarcely an exception his
inventions have been of pronounced value to the '
business world, and his discovery of the business
phonograph is by no means an exception. The
perfected business phonograph is today one of the
most essential and valuable aids of the business man.

Edison Himself

From the time he took out his first patent, for
an electrically operated vote recorder, in 1869, ‘up
to the present, Mr. Edison has given the major '
part of his time to the phonograph. With all his
patents, and they include so many that at the age
of 24 the United States Patent Commissioner re¬
ferred to him as “the young man who had kept
the path to the patent office hot with his foot¬

steps,” the phonograph has always held a first
place in his esteem. For this reason the an¬
nouncement some time ago that lie had perfected
the business phonograph was received with more
than ordinary interest.

With all his inventions, including telegraph im¬
provements, electrical engines, incandescent lamps,
batteries and scores of things electrical, it is signifi¬
cant that the great genius maintains a financial and
active interest in the phonograph, although he has
disposed of his interest in most of the Edison
companies.

While the intent of this article is to give
readers of Office Appliances an insight into the
making, development and uses of the Edison
Business Phonograph, it would not be complete
i without at least a brief reference to the career of
that: wonderful creative mind whose genius made'
the. rnachine possible.

Mr. Edison was born February 11, 1847; at
Milan, Erie county, Ohio. Samuel Edison, his
father, was of Dutch origin, and his mother,
Nancy. Elliot, Scotch. His inventive ' instincts
were, evidenced early in life, and' when, but IS
years .of age he made some important improve¬
ments in telegraph apparatus. The rejection of his
first patented invention, a vote recorder, already
referred to, by the Massachusetts legislature, de¬
cided him to make it a rule to always investigate
minutely the necessity of any particular invention
' before attempting its reduction to practice. This
accounts for the noteworthy fact that Edison’s
inventions have been of greater value to the com¬
mercial world than those of any other man.

Mr. Edison worked put many important patents
before accumulating enough funds to experiment
on a large scale. Finally, the sale of an invention
for $40,000 established him with an experimenting
..shop in New York. His business thrived, and he
moved to Newark, N. J., and took a shop in which
he employed three hundred hands. Even with
this, for those days, big staff Edison kept only pay
roll accounts, preserving all bills and giving notes
in payment usually. Often he would forget the jj
note until it was protested, when he would hustle

for money and pay it. He held that this saved
the luimbuggery of bookkeeping, which he didn’t
understand, and was cheaper, as protest fees were
only $1.50 each. Despite these business methods
he had excellent credit.

In 1876 the Edison laboratories and works
were moved to Menlo Park, N. J., and ten years
later the present plant in West Orange was estab¬
lished. There is ample room for growth on the
present site, and new buildings are being added
from time to time. to keep pace with the demands
of the increasing business. All the more recently
erected buildings are of uniform size and built of
concrete. The whole group of Edison buildings
presents a picture of astounding industrial activity
when it is considered that it is a direct result of the
inventions and enterprise of one lone man.

Tlie great inventor’s enormous capacity for
work is well known. He has worked sixty hours
continuously without sleep and with little food, to
find the cause of a machine’s refusal to work as he
intended it should. His widely quoted “two
per cent inspiration and ninety-eight per cent
perspiration” doubtless came as a result of such
experiences.

Notwithstanding the fact that Mr. Edison has
been the recipient of honors from leading scientific
institutions all over the world, and gifts from
crowned heads, statesmen and captains of industry,
lie has always been of a retiring nature and dis¬
inclined to publicity. His laboratory work
occupies most of his time, and when not there
he is usually with his family at his beautiful home
in Llewellyn Park, N. J. Of simple habits, he is a
total abstainer and of late has become a vegetarian.
While it was generally supposed that he retired
from active work along commercial lines when he
had completed three score years, he still spends
many hours in his laboratory and lias announced
his intention of perfecting molds from which

concrete houses can be built in a day or two at a
price within the reach of the average working man.

Discovering the Principle

■ The discovery of the principle of the phono¬
graph Mr. Edison attributes to an accident. Pie
was talking into the mouthpiece of one of his
telephones when the voice vibration sent the fine
steel point into his finger. This led him to the
conclusion that by recording the actions of -the
point and afterwards sending it over the same sur¬
face it would reproduce conversation. He experi¬
mented with a strip of telegraph paper and found
that the point made an alphabet. He then
reproduced words and by continued experiments
perfected the phonograph as known today in every
civilized country.

As early as 1878 Mr. Edison predicted among
the future applications of the phonograph its use
for letter writing and all kinds of dictation. Like
most commercial successes, the business phono¬
graph has passed through many and varied experi¬
mental stages. The first Edison company to
exploit phonographs was organized in 1878, and
was capitalized at $600,000. The public was slow
to appreciate the great commercial value of the
machine, and it has taken thousands of dollars and
reams of printed matter to place it where it is
today, one of the most valued of office appliances
and used in modern offices all over the world.

The making of the Edison Business Phono¬
graph as found in the modern office is as interest¬
ing a study in manufacturing as can be found in
any commercial article. The plant in which the
various parts are made and assembled into the
completed “voice-writing” outfit occupies eleven
five-story concrete buildings, exclusive of five
buildings used as chemical laboratories for research
work. The employes number some 4,000. While
the Edison amusement phonographs, kinetoscopes
(moving picture machines), Edison batteries and
numbering machines are produced in the same
plant, the making of the business machine is a
most important feature’of the industry. Its parts,
generally speaking, come from the same machinery
and skilled hands as those of the amusement
phonographs.

A View of the Plant

The electric power for the entire plant is pro¬
duced in one building, which contains engines
and generators equipped to furnish some 3,000
horse-power. The casting department, where
the base and other parts are cast, occupies another
building. In the machinery department, where
over five hundred machines of the most modern
type do work that would not be possible by hand,
the smaller parts of the phonographs are made.
Here screws are turned out of a brass rod at one

operation. Holes are bored in hard steel that do
not vary the smallest fraction of an inch on
thousands of parts turned out. One large room is
used for storing the immense quantity of brass and
steel that goes into the machines. The top floor
of the machinery building is devoted to a sort of
job shop for the plant. The japanning, nickeling
and polishing of parts is given careful attention in
another room. The reproducers and recorders
are assembled and tested in a department for that
purpose. A large space is given over to the
making of reproducing and recording points, the
most vital part of the whole machine. These
points are made of sapphire, and from the rough
stone first given the men who make them to the
finished points, they pass through twelve distinct
operations, each one of which is done under a
powerful microscope. Diamond dust is used for
grinding the sapphires, and the utmost care has to
be used in handling them.

When ready for assembling, the different parts
of all types of phonographs made are all sent to a
stock room, where they are tested. They are then
handed out to the men who do the assembling.
One large light room is given over to this. Before
the machine is ready for the final testing it has
passed through several hundred hands, the work
of each man in the assembling departments being
tested before it is passed along.

The assembling of the business phonograph is
done in a separate room. After the final tests of
the mechanism have been made it is equipped
with an electric or spring motor and sent to the
special stock room, from which it is shipped. In
this room a complete stock of all parts of the busi¬
ness machine is held.

Making the Cylinders

The commercial cylinders are longer than
those for the amusement machine, being made
for eight minutes dictation. As they are blanks
they are made by a different process. They are
moulded in plain brass cylinders, and the composi¬

tion is poured in by hand. When taken out of
the cylinder they are allowed to stand for two
weeks before being touched. The bore is reamed,
ends trimmed and then the record is shaved by a
machine adjusted to take an exact amount off each
blank. An inspection is made for flaws. It is
then shaved ready for use and after a final inspec¬
tion boxed and sent to the stock room. Defective
blanks are remoulded.

The cabinets in which phonographs are sold
are made in a building which would be considered
a good size for an exclusive woodworking factory.
They are of standard finish quartered oak and
made from raw materials. The bottom, sides and
top are cut exact size and finished separately, then
run through glue and put in moulds until set.
When joined the pieces are smoothed off, dipped
in filler, thoroughly shellacked and varnished and
the words Edison Business Phonograph stamped
on by a process of decalcomania. After a final
coat of varnish, oiling and polishing the cabinets
are adjusted with hinges and locks and are ready
for market. All packing cases in which machines
are boxed for shipment are also made in the
cabinet building.

The entire Edison plant is in charge of P.
Weber, general superintendent, and he is ably
assisted by E. L. Aiken.

The Edison Dictation Pad.

Handling the Product

To handle the product of such an immense
plant as that operated by the Edison Business
Phonograph Co. it is manifest that there must be
an executive and sale organization above the
ordinary. One entire building at the factory is
utilized for the administrative force and a fine five-
story building at Fifth avenue and Eighth street,
New York, is maintained for the selling organiza¬
tion.

Frank L. Dyer is president of the company,
C. H. Wilson is general manager, Wm. Pelzer
vice president, Alphonse Westee secretary and
treasurer, F. K. Dolbeer is credit manager, and
Nelson C. Durand is sales manager of the Edison
Business Phonograph Company.

The Phonograph of Today

While we have referred to the first company
selling the Edison phonograph as being organized
in 1878 the perfected commercial machine as now
being marketed has only been made since 1905.
The machine put out up to that time had only a
limited sale, as it did not appeal to the busy man
of affairs as an actual time and money saver and
practical improvement over the method of dic¬
tating to a stenographer.

To-day, with all objections of the old machine
eliminated and the improvements embodied in the
latest Edison Business Phonograph, it is doubtful
if there is an office in the country where any con¬
siderable volume of correspondence is handled
that the “voice writing” method will not be
acknowledged as the most expeditious, convenient
and economical obtainable. It must be used
intelligently, however, and not expected to per¬
form impossible feats or to run indefinitely without
oiling or any attention.

The Edison Business Phonograph of the present
day, with its reproducer for instantly repeating
any words desired by the dictator after an inter¬

ruption, its indicator showing length of letters
dictated and index of corrections or instructions to
the transcriber, stands out as one of the actual office
necessities of successful business concerns.

When the operation of a new Edison Business
Phonograph is explained it would seem superfluous
to call attention to its advantages over the old
method of dictating to a stenographer who has to
write and transcribe the notes before presenting
them in typewritten form. Experience has proven,
however, that no matter how successful a thing
may be or how obvious its improvement over that
which it was designed to replace, a lot of explain¬
ing and demonstrating is required to make it “go.”
The Edison Business Phonograph is no exception
to the general rule.

With the latest Edison “voice writing” ma¬
chine a person can dictate at leisure or as fast as
he can talk, and get equally good results. If
interrupted while dictating, by a telephone mes¬
sage, caller or otherwise, all he need do is turn the

svvivel-plate to the producer, hear what he last
said, and proceed. If he desires correction of an
error, any addition made to the letter, extra carbon
copies or anything not thought of when he started
to dictate, lie can, by means of the dictation index
slip supplied with Edison machines, indicate
exactly what he wants and the operator can follow
instructions without any loss of time. Moreover,
a box is supplied for each cylinder and the index
slip is numbered to correspond with that on the
box. Corresponding scales on phonograph and
index slips make it extremely easy and simple to
make corrections instantly. By referring to the
index slip the transcriber can at once ascertain the
length of a letter and thus make allowance for
proper spacing.

The Edison in Practice

The use of the Edison Business Phonograph in
a busy office means an actual saving of fifty per
cent in stenographers’ time. Only the time of the

dictator is used in producing letters, and that of
the transcriber can be devoted wholly to repro¬
ducing them in typewritten form. No time is
wasted by the stenographer waiting for the dictator
to answer the telephone, talk to a caller or any of
the dozen and one things that come up to interrupt
him while dictating. Many users of the phono¬
graph keep a machine at home and dictate to it at
their leisure. This applies particularly to law¬
yers, judges, court stenographers and others who
find it convenient to prepare manuscript at home.
In this way many trips to the office can be saved,
as the cylinders can be sent there by messenger
boy. Oftentimes when not possible for a man to
get to his office he can answer his correspondence
at home by use of the phonograph. This means
hundreds of dollars a year saved for lots of men.

The new model Edison Business Phonographs
are electrically operated by the Universal motor
for any type of alternating or direct current. The
transcriber can start or stop the machine instantly
by means of a foot-trip attached to the mechanism.

A slight pressure of the foot on this trip starts the
machine, and it stops on the pressure being re¬
leased.

The introduction of the business phonograph
was first the cause of considerable misgiving on
the part of stenographers, who predicted reduced
salaries or employment of mere typewriter oper¬
ators. With the new Edison machine there has
been the reverse of this. They are getting higher
salaries for more and better work, and in many
cases are enjoying shorter hours. The company
publishes a little booklet containing extracts from
the letters of fifty young business men and women
who have profited by use of the Edison Phono¬
graph in their work as stenographers. Points of
advantage emphasized in these letters are: “In¬
creased speed,” “less strain on eyes,” “notes
never cold,” “salary doubled,” “work regulated,”
“not half as tired,” “improves the dictation,”
“more accurate work,” “leaves employer free,” etc.

With stenographers it frequently happens that
parts of sentences are misunderstood or the short¬
hand notes are incorrectly transcribed. This is
impossible with the machine. Just what is dic¬
tated to it is reproduced. Nothing more. Noth¬
ing less.

The plan of selling Edison Business Phono¬
graphs through dealers has been in operation only
a few months, but Nelson C. Durand, sales man¬
ager of the company, states that it has met with
unqualified success and will be continued per¬
manently. Until the beginning of this year the
machines were sold only through branch offices of
the Edison Company, located in the principal
cities. This was done in order to get the machines
well established all over the country by ex¬
perienced men who were in direct touch with the
head office and could look after repairs and diffi¬
culties always accompanying the introduction of a
new machine. As soon as the machine had been
thoroughly introduced in this way it was decided

it could be handled in a satisfactory way by office
appliance dealers and other merchants. The
branch offices were all closed, and the machines
are now being distributed by dealers.

When a dealer undertakes the sale of the Edison
Business Phonograph he is given every assistance
by the company. If not too far removed from the
routes of their traveling men a specially trained
salesman is placed at his disposal until he gets the
machine installed in a number of offices and work¬
ing smoothly.

The Edison

Universal Electric Motor

By NELSON C. DURAND

SALES MANAGER

In 1878, thirty years ago, the first step was
taken to introduce the Edison Business Phono¬
graph for the dictation and transcription of corres¬
pondence by a company formed in New York city.

The first Business Phonograph employed a
sheet of tin foil, fastened around a cylinder, along
which the recording stylus was made to pass by
turning a crank by hand. It repre¬
sented only theembyro, the germ, a
faint idea of the wonderful apparatus
of the present day. To plan and
build for its perfection and adoption
by the business world, required the
faith, concentration and compre¬
hension of the great mind that
created it.

Edison and the trained assistants
that his personality has attracted
about him in these thirty years, have
never wavered from their tasks, and
all the great improvements that ap¬
pear to-day in this branch of the
Phonograph industry must be at-
• tributed to the perseverance and in¬
genuity of the Edison organization.

This article is written with the
hope that the reader will appreciate
the amazing progress of producing
the present Business Phonograph with its human¬
like qualities that records dictation, is capable of
instant reproduction and by means of the universal
electric motor allows the mechanical amanuensis to
be used under every electrical condition in a busi¬
ness office in which the incandescent light is used.

To obtain the proper comparison of the pro¬
gress of the Business Phonograph with other office
appliances^ we must separate the mechanical from
the electrical. The writer does not know of
another office appliance like the Business Phono¬
graph that depends essentially for its operation
upon an absolute, uniform and relative motion of
its operating parts that must be supplied from the
electric lighting circuits, conveniently found in
the business man’s office. The nearest approach
to these conditions is probably the electrically
driven adding machine, but this does not carry
with it the requirements of noiseless transmission
and constant operation during every working hour.

Now for many years it has been an easy matter
for the manufacturer to produce the mechanical
device that “talks” perfectly with the ordinary
types of electric motors, that are used by adding
machine companies, and others as evidenced by
the thousands of firms which to-day consider the
voice writing system indispensable in tbe conduc¬
tion of their correspondence. The
real problem has been the produc¬
tion of one single universal type of
electric motor that would make the
appliance interchangeable on alii/
electric lighting circuits, so that: it1''
would take its place as a standard
machine that could be carried in
stock by dealers in small quantities,
and sold under every condition, the
same as our more favored friend,
the typewriter.

This gives us the opportunity to
further explain to the layman that
some cities employ a classof electrical
current known as “direct current” ;
some have “alternating current”;
and the majority of cities employ
electrical circuits of several varieties
of these types.

Some business houses are in the
direct current belt, and others in the alternating
current belt. Some use direct current of their own
and outside alternating current in emergencies. .

Each kind of current will run a motor, but
each, up to the present time, required a different
kind of motor.

The new Edison universal motor brought out
for use with the Edison Business Phonograph will
run equally well on all currents in use throughout
the world.

Whether the business man uses the Phono-

graph in his office or home, whether he uses it in
travelling from point to point, whether he moves
from one part of the city to another, or works
days on one circuit, or after hours on another, the
universal motor gives the same perfect service.

In view of these former conditions was it any

wonder that the Business Phonograph for world¬
wide use has waited upon the advent of the Edison
universal motor?

The practical business man will recognize the
present opportunity of a broad selling c-ampaign,
which the new conditions make feasible. Only
one type of machine need now be carried in stock
by the dealer, and rich prospects are opened up in
new territory which employs certain classes of
alternating current for which no Phonograph
motor had previously been devised. The former
difficulty of instructing the selling agent in the
technical operation of perhaps a dozen special
motors has been removed, and the service to the
customer in every territory will be improved.

A very important detail in the construction of
the Edison universal motor consists in its economy
in the amount of electrical current which it con¬
sumes. This is 50 % greater than other types of
special motors, enabling the business houses to
save a sufficient sum of money during the life
time of the machine to pay for the original cost.

An examination of the Edison Business Phono¬
graph illustrated on these pages will give the
reader a clear idea of its unique arrangement.
Fig. 1 is a back view, showing the electrical con¬
nections by which the user attaches the Business
Phonograph to any incandescent lamp socket by
first removing the lamp, attaching the cord, and
then replacing the lamp in the connection without
interfering with the light which he needs for his
work. On the back of the cabinet a scale will be
noticed on which are marked several of the most
prominent classes of electrical current used today.

The user adapts his machine to the local electrical
conditions by simply moving the sliding pointer to
the correct position which he must first ascertain
from the proper authority.

When the Business Phonograph is set upon
the platform pedestal these electrical changes for

the motor can be conveniently and quickly made
without disturbing the arrangement in any way.

Fig- 2 gives a general front view of the top
of the machine, which is raised in the illustra¬
tion to expose the universal electric motor.
The motor is suspended from the Phonograph
proper by springs, which with its construction
makes it noiseless in its running. A screw through
tile top plate provides for regulation in the speed
or tone of the dictation. The motor case is of
aluminum, making the machineaslightas possible.

But what, in addition to the motor, will appeal
most strongly to the purchaser of the Edison
Business Phonograph is the swivel arm, holding
both a recorder and reproducer. Many small
business offices and professional men with a limited
correspondence can thus use one machine for
both operations of dictating and transcribing by
passing the machine, after the letter is dictated, to
the stenographer, who simply turns to the repro¬
ducing tool to hear the record.

Thus the 30th anniversary of the Edison Busi¬
ness Phonograph is very fittingly celebrated with
the introduction of this new universal type. The
writer believes that this advancement in the pro¬
duction of a universal electric motor will remain
a mark for other manufacturers to reach in every
line, and though the design of the entire Phono¬
graph may be improved in detail it must remain
the conception of the ideal mechanical amanuensis.

Electrical Testing Laboratories

GENERAL OFFICE AND LABORATORIES

Sept. 24th, 1908.

Edison Business Phonograph Company,
Orange,

Gentlemen: -

We have tested the operation of the "Universal"
eleotrio motor of Business Phonograph Ho.E48, under various
oonditions, respecting alternating or direot current, voltage
and frequenoy. The motor was delivered to us installed in a
phonograph box and driving its mandrel. Before eaoh test the
indioator on the adjusting devioe on the baok of the box was set

to the marked point corresponding to the conditions of operation
The results of the aleotrioal and meohanioal measure¬
ments are given in the following table:

Current,

Direot
Alternating, <

60-

40-

26-

Volts.

na.o

219 .0
110.0
217.6
110.0
109.0

Amperes.

0.199

0.210

0.220

0.222

0.218

0.211

Watts.

21.9

46.0

24.0

47.6

23.8

23.0

Time of
100 Rev.
Seoonds

60.7

69.6

61.2

Under the widely varying conditions noted above no
failure of the motor to operate satisfactorily was observed,
fours very truly,

ELECTRICAL TESTING LABORATORIES ,

C.H.S./P.

Manager

The

Edison Commercial System

Business Phonograph

THE successful introduction of varied time-saving devices in the modern
business office during the last five years encourages the office man¬
ager to recognize every appliance that promises greater convenience,
economy or dispatch of the day’s work. The Edison Business Phonograph
stands preeminently alone in these accomplishments. Where many devices
are saving minutes and pennies for the business house, voice writing is saving
days and dollars — not alone for one class of workers, but for the combined
army of high salaried heads and routine assistants that arc employed in the
world’s business correspondence.

Many have wondered that a world wide application of voice writing to
correspondence has not been effected ■ more quickly, but an explanation of this
is found in the development and extension of new systems of electric lighting
into fully 90% of the territory of the world, for which no suitable electric
phonograph motor was provided until the recent invention of the Edison
Universal Motor (described on pages 4 and 5) which makes the Business
Phonograph now as practical as the typewriter in all localities.

The Office Manager who reads the following pages should keep in mind

Universal Service for all Electric Power and Office Conditions

;raph , for every convenience has
:ntal voicewriting machine to make

Primary Printed Series
Edison Manufacturing Company

"Battery Facts. . . for Gas Engine Manufacturers." 1899.

"Edison Primary Batteries and Battery Fan Outfits." Form 128. 1902.

"Edison Primary Batteries." Form 280. 1906.

"Edison Projecting Kinetoscopes." Form 320. 1907.

"The Bulletin of Edison Films for the Week Ending February 20, 1909."
Form 418. 1909.

"Edison Projecting Kinetoscopes." Form 470. 1910.

BATTERY
FACTS .

FOR GAS ... . .

ENGINE MANUFACTURERS

MARK

EDISON MFG. COMPANY

Factory: Orange, New Jersey
Office and Salesroom: 135 Fifth Ave¬
nue, corner of 20th Street, New York

£berc arc $ix good reasons

WHY THE

Edison-Lalande Batteries

COMMEND THEMSELVES TO GAS
ENGINE MANUFACTURERS .A J

W EDISON-LALANDE BATTERIES develop a heavy, constant current-con-
» tinuously — no attention necessary until the entire charge is exhausted

^ EDISON-LALANDE BATTERIES do not waste while idle

3 EDISON-LALANDE BATTERIES are simple in construction, easy to set up,
easy to renew

4 EDISON-LALANDE BATTERIES are absolutely free from all noxious fumes
or chemical deposits. No creeping or crystalizalion over tops of jars

^ EDISON-LALANDE BATTERIES will not freeze

6 For portable and marine gas engines, the EDISON-LALANDE BATTERIES
are made with liquid-tight covers, and as the containing vessels of these types
are made of enameled steel, they will stand any amount of hard usage

£b« largest

GAS AND GASOLINE ENGINE
MANUFACTURERS IN THE
COUNTRY ARE NOW USING

Edison-Lalande Batteries

jure Voji Ulitb Us?

READ SOME OF, OUR TESTIMONIALS

Description

The element employed in the various types of the EDISON-
LALANDE BATTERIES described in this pamphlet are the
following

ZINC, forming the negative pole

BLACK OXIDE OF COPPER, the positive pole

CAUSTIC POTASH SOLUTION

PARAFFINE OIL is poured on the top of the solution, thus avoiding both
evaporation and creeping

Simplicity

The greatest attenllon has been given to simplifying the con¬
struction of these batteries, in order that their management
may be easily accomplished and readily understood by the
general public, unfamiliar with the use of batteries. Complete
directions with illustrated diagrams, showing exactly how to
set up and operate, accompany each battery

€di$on=Calamk Batteries

FOR STATIONARY ENGINES

TYPE “BB” CELL

Slot Machine and Small Gas Engine Model

Capacity, (00 Ampere Hours
Price Complete Cell, with Porcelain Jar, $1.50
PRICE OF RENEWAL PARTS

1 ZinfTrMate.'icapaclty^t^iarge)1, C'k"SC'>’ . $ 1=5

i Can Caustic Potash (capacity, i charge), . ’ . . .15

Bottle Heavy Paraffine Oil (t charge) . .05

Total . $0.65

■ V).

fdisotiCalatule Batteries

^ FOR STATIONARY ENGINES

TYPE “Q” CELL

Small Gas Engine Model

She over all. 5 i". Jar only, sK*7in.

Capacity, 150 Ampere-Hours
Price of Cell, Complete with Porcelain Jars, $2,00

PRICE OF RENEWAL PARTS

2 Zinc Plates (capacity, I charge), I2c. each, . .

i Copper Oxide Plate (capacity, i charge), y.

I Can, i charge Caustic Potash,

edi$on=Calaitde Batteries

FOR MARINE AND PORTABLE ENGINES.

TYPE “ZM CELL

Small Marine and Traction Gas Engine Model
with Liquid-Tight Steel Enameled Jar

Sire over all, 4j£x6Jf i»- Jar only, 4**6 in.

Capacity, 100 Ampere-Hours
Price, Complete, - - - $1.75

PRICE OF RENEWAL PARTS

few suggestions

FOR STATIONARY
GAS ENGINE WORK
use "R” rather than “ Q ” cells if you- have the space,
for these reasons

The internal resistance of “ R " cells is less than “ Q ”i consequently
the available current is greater. 5 •• R ” cells will replace 6 of “Q ’’
Also " R” cells have double the life of .“ Q" cells i consequently
they last twice as long and cost only slightly more
The " BB” cell is the smallest size suitable for stationary work, and
has two-thirds the life of the Q.” 7 cells •• BB ” will replace 6 of
“ Q" or 5 of “ R.”

IT IS CUSTOMARY TO USE about 4 or 5 “R" cells, or 5
or 6 " Q ” cells or 6 or 7“BB” cells for . stationary gas engine

FOR PORTABLE o»

GAS ENGINE WORK

use “ V ” rather than " Z ” cells for reasons mentioned above.

The life of V ” cells is SO per cent greater than Z ”

For portable engines use 5 or 6 "V" cells, or 6 to 8 "1" cells,
The •• AA ” is same size as <• R,” and lasts twice as long as •• V.” •
The internal resistance of " AA ” cells, is less than •• Vi” consequently
the available current is greater, 5 “A” aa will replace 6 of“* V.” '
Use Edison SparK Coils with these batttfips, See page 2f,

Tt is poor economy to use
Cheap Spark Coils. —

EDISON SPARK COIL FOR GAS ENGINE WORK

The Principal Points in Favor of the

EDISON PRIMARY BATTERY

FORMERLY KNOWN AS THE EDISON'LALANDE BATTERY

1st* High and constant available electromotive force.

2d. No local action, and therefore no loss of energy, while the
cell is idle— the chemical action in cell is less than one per cent, per
month.

3d* Extremely low internal resistance.

4th. Heavy current delivery, absolutely constant.

5th. Cheap materials, easily obtained.

6th. No attention or inspection required, until all the energy of
its elements is exhausted.

7th. Convenience of. form, and freedom from noxious fumes or
chemical deposits. No creeping.

8th. No polarization.

9th. Will not freeze at lowest temperature.

10th. The Edison Primary Battery is now made in nine different
types, each one of which is especially designed for the kind of work
named. (Sec page 15.)

Particular attention is directed to the Edison Primary
cells , types Z, V and A A, illustrated on pages 2j, 24
and 2s, as these models have steel enameled Jars, with
liquid-tight covers, and are especially suitable for use with
portable gas engines, including marine and traction
engines, also slot machines, etc,, etc. All these types are
strongly and well made,' and will stand any amount .

0/ hard usage. They arc also well adapted for
PORTABLE phonograph batteries, especially type V.

EDISON PRIMARY BATTERIES

COPPER OXIDE PLATES

The amount of copper oxide used in each cell is so calculated that it
will be entirely reduced to metallic copper when the zincs arc consumed
and the solution is exhausted. *

TO ASCERTAIN IF THE OXIDE PLATES ARE EX¬
HAUSTED: Pick into the body of the oxide plates with a sharp pointed
knife. If they are red throughout the entire mass, they are completely
exhausted and need renewing. If, on the contrary, there is a layer of
black in the interior of the plates, there is still some life left, tile
amount being dependent entirely upon the thickness of the layer of black
oxide still left.

IT IS VERY POOR ECONOMY TO USE EXHAUSTED
OXIDE PLATES OVER AGAIN, as the battery will then polarize

TABLE SHOWING RELATION BETWEEN
OLD AND NEW MODELS

ADVICE AS TO WHICH TYPE OF CELL TO USE
ON VARIOUS LINES OF WORK

re have discontinued making Edison Primary cells, type “E,” “G,”
and “P,” and have substituted newer models specified below, and
ted on pages 17 to 25. We still keep on hand Renewal Parts for
earlier types above referred to, so that customers having these cells
•vice will not be inconvenienced.

Old type E is now represented by new type Q

“ G . RR

“ K . S

“ P " “ “ “ \V

lie only change in these cells is that the zincs in the new types ore
1 to a porcelain knob on tile cover, and consequently have a hole in
eck for the bolt to pass through, instead of being made with a hook,
early models. The oxide plates, caustic soda and oil, will do for the
ind old types equally well.

FOLLOWING LIST WILL BE OF SERVICE TO DEALERS CARRYING
A LINE OF OUR BATTERIES ON HAND
c plates for Z and BB cells arc the same size

" E, K, Q, S, SS and V cells

G, P, RR, \V and AA “

:ic Sodn cans for Z and BB
" E, Q and V

" G, RR, K, S, SS and AA

" P and W

:s of Oil for Z and BB

** E, K, Q, S and V

Each type of cell hits been constructed to fill special requirements of

the electrical profession. Thus we recommend their use as follows :

Type BB. for Slot Machines, Gas Engines and Annunciators.

Type Q. for Gas Engines, Small Fan Motors, Spark Coils, Large Annun¬
ciators, Burglar Alarms and Slot Machines.

Type RR. for Gas Engines, Railroad Crossing Signals, Fan Motors, Pho¬
nographs, District Telegraph, Fire Alarm Telegraph, Local
and Main Line Batteries, Turntable Motors, Electro¬
plating and Slot Machines.

Type S. for Fan Motors, Phonographs, Electro-plating, Chemical
Analysis, Miniature Lamps, Sewing Machines, and X-Ray
Coils.

Type SS. for Railroad Semaphore Signals.

Type Z. (Liquid-Tight) for Marine and Traction Gas and Gasoline
Engines, Slot Machines and Portable Battery for Phono¬
graphs. (Sec page 23).

Type V. (LiquidsTight) for Marine and Traction Gas and Gasolene
Engines, Slot Machines and Portable Battery for Phono¬
graphs. (Sec page 24).

Type AA. (Liquid-Tight) for Marine and Traction Gas and Gasolene

FOR STATIONARY GAS ENGINE WORK

Use “ RR” rather than “Q” cells, if you have tlic space, for these

The internal resistance of “RR” cells is less than “Q,” consequently
the available current is greater. 5 “ RR” cells will replace G of “Q"
Also “RR” cells have double the life of “Q” cells; they last twice as long
.and cost only slightly more. The “BB” cell is the smallest size suitable
for stationary work, and has two-thirds the life of tlic “Q.” 7 cells

“BB” will replace G of “Q” or 5 of “RR.” It is customary to use about
4 or 5 “RR” cells, or 5 or 6 “Q” cells, or G or 7 “BB”cclls for station¬
ary gas engine work.

FOR PORTABLE GAS ENGINE WORK

Use “V’’ rather than “Z” cells for reasons mentioned above.

The life of “V” is 50 per cent, greater than “Z” cells.

For portable engines use 5 or G “V” cells, or 6 to 8 “Z” cells.

The "AA” is same size as "RR,” and lasts twice as long as "V.”

The internal resistance of "AA” cells is less than “V,” consequently
the available current is greater.

6 “AA” will replace 6 of "V.”

Use Edison Spark Coils with these batteries. (Sec page 27).

TABLE SHOWING WEIGHTS OF VARIOUS TYPES
EDISON PRIMARY CELLS

ALL PRICES SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE

Price List

EDISON PRIMARY BATTERIES

TYPE “BB” CELL

FOR STATIONARY ENGINES

SLOT MACHINE AND SMALL GAS ENGINE MODEL

EDISON PRIMARY BATTERIES

TYPE “ Q ” CELL

SMALL FAN MOTOR AND GAS ENGINE MODEL

CAPACITY, 150 AMPERE-HOURS

COMPLETE CELL, WITH $2.20
PORCELAIN JAR, Price ** * — :

PRICE OF COMPLETE RENEWAL

FOR ABOVE . $ .82

RENEWAL PARTS ITEMIZED BELOW

Two Zinc Flutes (capacity one charge),

14c. each ...... -28

One Copper Oxide Plate (capacity one

charge) . •31

Can containing one chnrgc Cnnstic Soda .17

Bottle Heavy Paraffine Oil, one charge .06

EDISON PRIMARY BATTERIES

TYPE “SS” CELL

CAPACITY, 300 AMPERE-HOURS

COMPLETE CELL, WITH <tO 25
PORCELAIN JAR, Price ■

COMPLETE CELL, WITH $3 QQ
GLASS JAR, Price = _

PRICE OF COMPLETE RENEWAL

FOR ABOVE . $1.40

RENEWAL PARTS ITEMIZED BELOW

EDISON PRIMARY BATTERIES

LIQUID-TIGHT STEEL ENAMELED JAR

CAPACITY, 150 AMPERE-HOURS

COMPLETE CELL WITH
LIQUID-TIGHT STEEL EN- <C9 Cfl
AMELED JAR, . Price .
COMPLETE CELL WITH
PORCELAIN JAR, BUT
WITHOUT RUBBER GAS- <tQ on
KET RING, . . . Price

PRICE OF COMPLETE RENEWAL FOR

ABOVE . . $ .89

RENEWAL PARTS ITEMIZED BELOW

EDISON PRIMARY BATTERIES

TYPE “A A” CELL

LARGE LAUNCH AND TRACTION GAS ENGINE MODEL

LIQUID-TIGHT STEEL ENAMELED JAR

CAPACITY, 300 AMPERE-HOURS

COMPLETE CELL, WITH
LIQUID-TIGHT STEEL EN- cn
AMELED JAR, Price

COMPLETE CELL, WITH
PORCELAIN JAR, BUT
WITHOUT RUBBER GAS- <tQ Of)
KET RING, . . Price U

PRICE OF COMPLETE RENEWAL

IS -J2

Edison 9- in. Suspension
Battery Fan Motor Outfit

1902 Model

General Directions for Charging
EDISON PRIMARY BATTERIES

When it is practicable, always allow the solution to cool before
setting up the Battery. Remove any scum from the surface of the
solution before pouring on the oil. Stir the solution frequently while the
caustic soda is dissolving.

It is most important that the oxide plates should be entirely sub¬
merged in the Caustic Soda solution, so that the top edge of the oxide
plates should be at least one inch below the layer of oil.

It is also of vital importance that the oil should not be omitted.

Edison

Primary Batteries

Edison Spark Coil

EDISON MANUFACTURING CO.

Prices of Permanent Parts

rclain Jars, Type "BB" . . . $c

rclain Jars, Types "Q" and "V"
relain Jars, Types "R," "RR" and “AA"
relain Jars, Type "S" .
relain Jars, Type "SS"
olain Jars, Type "W” ,

1 Enameled Jar, Type "AA" . i

Enameled Jar, Type "V"

Enameled Jar, Type "Z” .
elain Covers, Types "Z" and "BB" .
elain Covers. Types "Q," "S," "V" and " W"

EDISON PROJECTING
KINETOSCOPE

EXHIBITION MODEL, IMPROVED T
AND FILM MAGAZINES.

MOTION PICTURE UNIVERSAL
ADJUSTABLE OBJECTIVE LENS

This is a new lens for motion picture work. .It
will project a picture of any desired size between

the location of the machine or making any change
in the focus of the objective.

CARRYING CASES

a very intense illuminant, and for man>
found great favor with stcrcopticon ex-
; a convenient clear and intense light foi

when electric current is not available.

. GASO-OXYGEN GAS-MAKING
OUTFITS

The Gaso-Oxvgen Light is a powerful illumin-
ant and one of the best substitutes ,for electric
light. It is safe, economical and casy&o operate.
The outfit consists of an oxygen generating appa¬
ratus, saturator and burner. The jet burns upon
a lime pencil and produces a brilliant light. Two
outfits, designated No. 27 and No. 28, respectively,
will be found with a complete list of parts for
each, together with prices, on pages Nos. 38-40.
DYNAMIC HIGH POWEJR CALCIUM
LIGHT BURNER

PARTS AND SUPPLIES

ISON EXHIBITION MODEL PROJECTING

The Bulletin of

EDISON

FILMS

For ■ Week, Ending
February 20, 1909

MANUFACTURING COMPANY

A Daughter of the Sun The Uplifting of Mr. Barker

EDISON

KINETOSCOPES

Edison Projecting
Kinetoscopes

Made by

EDISON MANUFACTURING COMPANY
Orange, New Jersey

EDISON PROJECTING KINETOSCOPES

•TERMS

Cash with order, or C. O. D. upon receipt of twenty-five per cent, of
the amount of the purchase to guarantee transportation charges. Remit by
Bank Draft, Post Office or Express Money Order, or Certified Check.

Deliveries F. O. B. at point of shipment. No charge for boxing or
cartage.

When ordering state whether shipment is to be made by freight or ex¬
press, and give route in either case. Freight shipments take from three to four
times as long to reach destination as express shipments, but the latter cost
from three to five times more.

Use catalog numbers for mail orders, use code words for telegraphic
orders, and spell the code words exactly as printed.

Edison Projecting Kinctoscopcs arc sold, without territorial restrictions.
We do not lease or rent machines. We do not ship machines on approval.
We do not deal in second-hand machines, or take old machines in exchange
or trade.

CAUTION

Edison Kinctoscopcs, Projecting Kinctoscopes and Films arc covered by
U. S. Patents No. 493.2+6, March 14, 1893; No. 589,168, August 31, 1897
(re-issued September 30, 1902, No. 12,037 and 12,038, and January 12,
190+, No. 12,192) ; No. 688,648 and No. 688,649, December 10, 1901, and
No. 714,845, December 2, 1902. The public is warned against purchasing or
exhibiting infringing apparatus.

Introduction

Edison Projecting Kinetoscopes, as now highly devel¬
oped, represent the motion picture art at its best.

In the thirteen years that Edison Projecting Kinetoscopes
have been before the public they have always enjoyed the

reputation of combining safety, reliability, durability and all

other essential features of a perfect motion picture machine.
They have at all times kept pace with the demands of the
motion picture business. Numerous important improve¬
ments have been made from, time to time, while the older

tried and proven features have been retained. They are now

made in two styles: Underwriters’ Model (Type “B”)
Projecting Kinetoscopes, Improved Exhibition Model Pro¬
jecting Kinetoscope.

Each is a perfect motion picture machine in every
respect, although differing in some of the details of con¬
struction. Both are adapted for Edison standard films, as well
as for the films of other licensed manufacturers. The
mechanism of each is so simple as to be easily understood
by anyone of ordinary intelligence. Both are made with
the one-pin movement.

The advantages derived from the use of Edison machines
are: Durability, compactness, portability, * simplicity of
operation, accuracy, interchangeability of parts and the pro¬
jection of steady and flickerless pictures.

A general description of both models is arranged in this
catalog to briefly and clearly demonstrate their advantageous
features.

EDISON PROJECTING KINETOSCOPES

Take-Up Attachment

The Take-up Attachment automatically winds up the film after it has been exhibited

EDISON PROJECTING KINETOSCOPES

The question of Rheostats is one about which there has been r
diversity of opinion, due principally to a lack of knowledge of re
not practical to make what might be termed a "Universal Rheostat"

Direct Current circuits of 100-125 volts will give perfectly satisf;
ordinary conditions in the hands of an intelligent operator. To get

For Direct Current circuits of 100-125 volts the Underwriters’ P

EDISON PROJECTING KINETOSCOPES

EDISON PROJECTING KINETOSCOPES
Improved Film Rewinder

One-Pin Movement Alterations

Exhibition Model Two-Pin Movement Mechanisms and Underwriters’ Model Two-
Pin Movement Mechanisms can be changed to One-Pin Movement Mechanisms at a cost

EDISON PROJECTING KINETOSCOPES

Lenses

All lenses furnished by us are of the highest quality and specially adapted for the
work intended. Motion Picture Lenses Nos. 4, 5 and i project the same size pictures
respectively as I, 2 and 3, but are of much better quality, in fact are the highest grade

Table of Projection

| Project a picture 3 ft. wide for every thirteen feet of distance.
1 Project a picture 3 ft. wide for every nineteen feet of distance.

Stereo. Lenses; while the Exhibition Model has the No. 2 and 2A Lenses.

Special Lenses

Universal

EDISON PROJECTING KINETOSCOPES

THE SATURATOR

The Saturator is attached to the side of the generator, so*as to be in a convenient
position when the apparatus is in use, although it may be readily detached for recharging .
or for transportation.

4 ** *Je Saturator consists of a polished, nickel-plated brass cylinder forming a chamber
which is filled with absorbent material which is saturated with sulphuric ether or 88%
gasoline.

When the apparatus is in use oxygen flows through an ingenious arrangement of
coils within the Saturator chamber, passes through a condensing chamber at the bottom
of the Saturator and thence returns to a double valve controlled by two thumb screws.
One of these thumb screws permits a limited amount of oxygen to pass into the bottom
of the saturation chamber and causes the vaporization of the ether, which is conducted
by a hose, attached to the top of the Saturator, to the calcium light jet. The other thumb
screw controls the flow of pure oxygen (freed from water vapor by passing through the
coils within the saturator) which is conducted by another tube to the other inlet to the
calcium light jet.

The Saturator holds approximately 1 lb. of sulphuric ether, which is sufficient for
the longest entertainment using a double lantern.

The upper end of the Saturator is provided with a large removable cap which
remove* th jttchanBlng of the PacklnS within the Saturator, should it be desired to

For those unfamiliar with the use of ether saturators it may be well to state that
the ether vapor takes the place of the hydrogen gas ordinarily used. In other respects
te operation is identical with that of the operation of oxygen and hydrogen cylinders.
This Saturator is more perfect in design and operation than any which has heretofore
been put on the market.

e improvements embodied in

19,28 Edl,on 0x>’S'" Generator and Saturator (without burner or chemicals) . . j

EDISON PROJECTING KINETOSCOPES

High Power Calcium Light Burner

This lime light burner has the highest efficiency of any calcium light burner on the
market, and is particularly well adapted for the projection of motion pictures. The best
calcium light is not as powerful as the electric arc, and any feature that adds to the
candle power of a lime light burner is highly desirable.

The mixing chamber of this burner is constructed along the best scientific lines.
The gases mix thoroughly before they reach the tip of the burner. Larger bore goose¬
necks are furnished extra on special order.

When exhibitors desire the highest degree of illumination, the large bore is used

with a lime cylinder 1J4 inches in diameter. The lime cup of the Burner is of the
standard size to take inch or % inch limes; limes V/a, inches in diameter are reduced
at the bottom to fit this lime cup.

Actual photometric tests demonstrate that this Burner produces 1,100 candle-power
with 1 % inch limes. Ordinary lime light burners produce only 600 candle-power with

Cat. No.

19092 Hold erTost °. '"I"1. . .’.V.'. . .'••••

18463 Extra Goose-necks 1/12 inch bore, each. .

18463A Extra Goose-necks 1/16 inch bore, each......

Oxone

HARD AND COMPACT! WILL NOT CRUMBLE; UNIFORM SUPPLY OF
OXYGEN; W/,% PURE GAS.

Primary Printed Series
Edison Ore Milling Syndicate, Ltd.

"The Dunderland Iron-Ore Deposits and Mr. Thomas A. Edison's Process "
Ca. 1902.

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Strand, Lon^n, W.C.

The

Dunderland Iron Ore Deposits

. . . and . . .

Mr. Thomas A. Edison’s Process*

The Dunderland Iron Ore Deposits and
Mr. Thomas A. Edison’s Process.

• There has been for some time a well-founded apprehension that both the nati\e
and foreign sources from which the iron and steel manufacturers of Great Britain
draw their supplies of pure iron ore must in comparatively few years become ex¬
hausted. The Cumberland deposits are being worked out, and Spanish ore, if not
approaching exhaustion, is deteriorating so seriously in quality as to raise grave
doubts whether it will be worth importing in the near future. When it is considered
that the British iron and steel industry imported no less than 4)087,744 tons of ore
and 112,735 tons of pig iron in the first nine'months alone of 1901, and:that the
continuance in work of the great steel plants of the country depends upon the
maintenance of this supply, both in bulk and quality, the necessity of new sources
of supply is apparent.

In these circumstances the discovery of any new and extensive source of supply
is necessarily a matter of the utmost importance to the iron and steel industry, and
such a source of supply has now been rendered a practical possibility by the appli¬
cation of the new Edison process to the Dunderland Iron Mines. •

The Dunderland deposits are situated on the West Coast of Norway, sixteen
miles from the port of Mo, on the Ranen Fjord, which is practicable for ships of large
draught. A thorough examination has been made of one set of deposits by means of
trenching, boring, etc., and it is estimated that 80 million tons of ore are shown
to be available for open cast quarrying., In addition it is confidently, believed that
the deposits not. yet proved contain at least a further 100 million tons. There is
available on the property water power sufficient to run a concentrating plant many
times larger than is contemplated ; and freehold land amply sufficient for the con¬
struction of a railway between the port and the mines, and for the necessary wharves,
mills, etc. The railway has already'been surveyed in detail and can be rapidly
and economically constructed. The climate is reported to permit of work being
carried on in all seasons, without' serious^ interruption. Labour is cheap and
plentiful., ■

The Dunderland ore fields have long been known to geologists as among the most
extensive in Europe, and the following gentlemen among others have reported upon
them Professor Henry Louis; M. A., A.R.S.M. (of the Durham School of Mines),
Dr. Theodor Lehmann, Freiburg University, and Professor Vogt, Geologist to the
Norwegian Government. •

The deposits have not hitherto been commercially worked for the reason that
the ore, which averages 40 per cent, metallic iron, is not sufficiently rich in iron to
ship in a crude state to British ports.

When this ore, however, is changed by concentration from a 40 per cent, to a
67 per cent, ore, the value of the Duriderland Mines becomes unique at once on
account of the abundance and friability of ore available, and the natural features of
the situation. As Professor Henry Louis, M.A., says: "The advantages presented
by this property — namely, enormous quantities of low grade ore within a short dis¬
tance of a shipping place, and with ample water power for all purposes, are most
marked, and are not approached by any other property in Europe, as far as I know.”

It is proposed to erect in Dunderland a plant designed by Mr. Edison to con¬
centrate a million and a half tons of this ore per annum. Mr. Edison has devoted,
many years and expended approximately five hundred thousand pounds sterling in
investigating the concentrating problem and experimenting on a large scale with the-
machinery. The Edison Ore Milling Syndicate Limited, which is the owner of Mr.
Edison’s European patents amongst others, has devoted the last three and a half:
years to testing properties to which the process should be applied, and secured the
Dunderland property- as in all respects the most eligible.

The process has now been perfected and, by its enormous output and low work¬
ing cost, makes a notable advance.in the science and practice of winning and preparing
such ores for the furnace.

The process consists briefly in crushing the iron-bearing rock to powder, magT
netically separating, the powdered iron from the rock dust, and moulding the powdered-
iron, after mixing with a binding material, into briquettes.

In the course of crushing and separating, the silica and phosphorus are so largely
eliminated that the briquettes become pure ore of the highest quality and value, con¬
taining on an average 65 per cent, to 67 per cent, metallic iron.

Mr. E. Windsor Richards, ex-President of the Iron and Steel Institute, and
Director of Bolckow, Vaughan and Co., Guest, Keen and Co., etc., in his report,
says; — "These analyses show that . ... the ore has been changed from an

impure condition to one high in iron and low in sulphur and phosphorus, and made,
entirely suitable for the manufacture of high-class steel by the acid processes."

. ^Th e-briquettes, in addition to being high in iron, conUin^jlcLahsarb-no-moistiircr
and-consequeh U v eliedTa L^3ideraEIe-eeonolrRLof~fujel-in-th&--ftHmftce. The plant it-
is, proposed to erect will be designed to produce 750000 tons of briquettes per'
annum at the outset, and this output can be. increased at a comparatively low expendi¬
ture upon additional plant.

A bank of magnets is now in operation in London, and illustrates the process of the'
magnetic separation of both magnetite and specular hematite.

THE PURE IRON ORE SUPPLY.

Professor Henry Louis, M.A., Durham School of Mines, in the course of a report
the Dunderland Ore Fields, says

The data on which this report is based were obtained during my lengthy examina¬
tion of the property in the summer of 1899, and the results of the prospecting and
boring operations carried out, ... by Dr. Lehmann in the summer of 1900.

LOCATION. — Tiie property is situated near the head of the Ranen Fjord, on
the West Coast of Norway, almost upon the Arctic circle. The most important portion

lies along the northern slope of the Dunderland Valley, commencing about 12 miles
from the mouth of the Dunderland River, and extending eastwards up the river for
another 13 miles. The Ranen Fjord is navigable up to the mouth of the river for
the largest steamers, and is said to remain open in all except abnormally severe winters.

EXTENT. — ’I’iie property comprises some 560 mineral concessions, each conces¬
sion being 280 metres along the outcrop of the ore, making thus a total length of
nearly 100 miles of mineral belts; the necessary surface rights are included, together
with the land needed for railways and a shipping station, also a very large waterfall, known *
as Renfossen, together with several smaller ones.

ORE DEPOSITS. — These form a belt of mineralised country some 13 miles
long, consisting of beds of schist impregnated with layers and patches of iron ore.
These are several parallel ore-bodies varying in width up to 400 feet; these ore-bodies
cannot be traced continuously, being cut- off in some places by faults and folds of the
strata, and buried in others under glacial drift. Only the Eastern 10 miles of the
main mineral belt have been properly prospected ; this portion has been proved by
trenching and boring to contain 75 million tons of ore workable opencast without
hoisting, no deposit narrower than 60 feet in width being included in this calculation.
Taking into account the other unproved and outlying portions of the property, it is
safe to estimate that there are 100 millions of tons of ore available. .

COMPOSITION OF THE ORE. — An exhaustive series of tests has given the
following as the average composition of the proved portion of the deposit: —

Metallic iron present as magnetite . ... 10 per cent.

Metallic iron present as hematite . 29 per cent.

With reference to the available water power, he says: —

There is on the Dunddrland River an immense waterfall, over 100 feet in height,
capable of yielding1 much over 50,000 H.P.,, so that the mill can be driven by this
cheap source of power, there being also ample power to work electrically the railways
connecting the mines, mill, and shipping place, thus providing cheap transport, whilst
the same force can be transmitted to the workings and employed for drilling, hauling
the ore, and all other purposes for which power may be required.

And summing up his observations, says generally : —

e advantages presented, by this property — namely, enormous quantities of low
>re within a short distance of a shipping place, and with ample water power
purposes, are most marked, and are not approached by any other property

silica, tne mini concentrates average front 03 to 00 *5 ^ 01 metallic iron, from 0*020 to 0*02 9%
of phosphorus, about 0*013% sulphur, and about 3 to 4% of silica; or, in other words,
the low grade (in tlieir crude state practically useless) Dunderland ores have been changed
into a high-grade Bessemer ore, which, after being brought into the form of hard, compact
briquettes, will prove in eveiy respect to meet the requirements of the furnace, either if it
be used alone by itself or as an admixture to other ores.

As in this process of concentration it requires about two tons of the crude ore to make
one ton of concentrates, the quantity of ore represented in the Dunderland deposits, as
far as they can be mined opencast, is equivalent to about 40 million tons of rich iron ore
briquettes, which will keep a concentrating plant with a capacity of 5000 tons of crude ore
(equivalent to 2500 tons of briquettes) per day going for more than fifty years. After all
the upper portions of the ore have been removed by quarrying, at least another 100 million
tons cau be obtiiued by underground mining.

After observations on the Helgeland and Fuglstrand group of deposits, com¬
prising 293 mining concessions, which contain vast quantities of ore, but have not
yet been so thoroughly investigated, Dr Lehmann proceeds : —

As was stated above, the most westerly deposits of the Dunderland group will be the
first ones to be exploited. A proposed railway connecting these ore-bodies with the sea
and the concentrating plant has been surveyed, and practically all the land necessary for
it has been purchased. The concentrating works themselves it is intended to erect at
Storfoshei, at a sina 1 distance from the Mines, where sufficient ground offering splendid
facilities both for building a plant of any desired capacity and for disposing of all the
refuse or *• tailings ” from the works can be acquired at small cost.

Building stone of a fair quality is found near by, and as the district is fairly wooded,
a good portion of the necessary timber cau be obtained ; but the larger sizes of timber, such
as is required for bridges, trestles, harbour, etc., will have to be brought from other parts
of Norway. Plenty of good intelligent labour is available at a low price, the average wages
of a skilled miner or carpenter being 3/6 a day. A good harbour site exists at Guldsmedvik,
a large tract of freehold land situated at the Fjord near the mouth of the Dunderland River,
and belonging to the owners of the Miues.

When finished,, the harbour can accommodate two or three vessels of about 6000 tons,
and it is possible and advisable to build the stockhouses upon or close to the quay, so that
with proper loading arrangements the vessels may receive their cargo of ore-briquettes in
the shortest time possible.

A11 excellent Waterpower ‘has been acquired, together with all the land necessary for
the erection of a power station. The falls are called Rcnfosscn, situated at a point about half¬
way between the sea and the mines, and judging from the reports of several experts, it is
certain that they can furnish throughout the year all the power that would ever be needed
for operating both works and railway .

Although the Mines are situated at the border of the Arctic region, the climate is, due
to the influences of the Sea and Gulf stream, not so severe as to interfere with either Mines
or traffic. Mining has on aii enormous scale been successfully carried on for many years at
the Sulitjelma and Gellivara Mines, which are sit mted much fur. her north and inland. It is
true that the Ranenfjord freezes occasionally in its upp r part, but there is little doubt that
with regular navigation, it will be possible to keep it open at all times .

Mo-i-Rauen, November 5///,

THEODOR LEHMANN,

. The area of the iron ore deposits iu Dunderlandsdalen, comprising rich an

poorer ores, I have calculated to be about 600,000 square metres ; but if one includes th
deposits of the Helgeland group, the total area is not less than one milliori of square metre

. * 1 he quantity of ore in Dunderland is greater than at Gellivara, and about th

ic as at Kirumavara Luossavara. The more important deposits vary between 43*5 % an

69-5 % of in

Extracts from a Report made 01
skjold, in 1899 :

Dunderland Ore Deposits, by Dr. O. Norden

. There can be no doubt that the iron ore deposits of Dunderslandsdalcn ma’

be . classed among the largest known upon earth. But it is a fact that a large portion of thes'
ores are of such a quality that they cannot be used directly ; should it, however, be possibli
that they can be concentrated by magnetic methods, it is almost certain that these on

deposits will in the near future be. practically available .

Tlte location of Renfosscn, one of the largest waterpowers of Norway, on the road fron
to the port of Mo, is of great importance ; a railway can be constructed witliou

difficulty.

As regards the depth to which these deposits continue, there is at the present time n<
certainty, because no borings have been made ; but that they continue to a depth of severa
hundreds of metres appears to tne quite certain, on account of their great geologica
character, tlieir enormous longitudinal extent, and their intimate connection with rocks abou
■ whose continuation to great depths there ca ' ' '

. From samples gathered

ore contains about 47 per cent, of metallic
worked opencast .

the m

SjOgel, Marianeiuttd, August, 1899.

Extract from a Report by Mr. Walter Windsor Richards, dated October, 1901,
on the Dunderland property : — ■

A glance at the calculations will shew that in the Urtvand district alone an estimate of
102 million tons is given, of which 54 million can be worked opencast. In this several
apparently large bodies, as Naeverness, are not taken into account as there are no boreholes,
and they dip into the hill. There are also several other smaller deposits, which have had
no work done on them, which I have left out, so that these estimates are of the most con-

When work is started on the Urtvand deposits, I strongly recommend that' prospecting

Urtvand. It is on a plateau at an elevation of 150 feet above the river ; it is 1,500 feet long
by 1,000 feet wide, and is partly covered with timber which must be removed. . The Ortvand
lake is i£ x 4 mile, and is the centre of all the Ortvand deposits. At the south end is a
large cavity which is proposed to be used as a dumping ground for the tailings from the
concentrates. This dumping ground is about 3,000 feet long by 800 feet wide, and its
average depth below tile plateau about 100 feet. The capacity would be about 240 million
cubic feet Taking the specific gravity oi the tailings to be 3, that of the Ore being 4, this
dumping ground would contain space for the residue from 50 million tons of Ore.

Extracts from Reports on. Dunderland Ore Deposits, by A. Hasselbohm, M.E., in
. and 1899 :

• Summing up the contents of the above detailed descriptions, it will be seen that the
extension of the Dunderland iron ore deposits, from the western extremity of the Vestraalid
district to North-Dunderland, amount to not less than 15 miles.

On an average there arc three or four parallel veins, each of them being from 20-100
feet — in several cases so much as 400-500 feet thick; the whole of the deposits covering a

surface of about one million of square metres. .

As the beds ot iron ore occur at a sufficient elevation to render mining possible to a
depth of 600-700 feet, without being inconvenienced by water, it follows, that there exists in
Dunderland an easily available quantity of ore of not less than 200 million tons of cubic
metres, or 840 millions of metric tons.

designed by Mr. Edison. After drying the ore is conveyed t
the stockhouse the material is next taken to another set of r
principle, which grind the ore fine. The powdered ore is
material returned for closer crushing, and the fine delivered to
which form the distinctive feature of the Edison process.

The magnets are ranged in series, one below the oth
or tailings that have passed the first magnet are treated by t
till all the iron is thoroughly extracted from the 'powdered
straight on, and is carried out of the building, and the iror
the stockhouses. An extremely ingenious process (invent
. thoroughly cleanses the concentrates of whatever excess of
the process of crushing and* magnetic separation.

These concentrates, being in a fine powdered state, cannot I
furnace, and have, consequently, to be compressed into brii
thoroughly mixed with a binding material, and then pressec
squeezing force of 60,000 lbs., and roasted in a furnace heat
These briquettes are impervious to moisture, but are at the i
the gases from the blast furnace can penetrate to their cent
atures they are hard, and can be shipped in the same way
they do not disintegrate under the action of heat in the blast

Report of Mr. Andrew S. McCreath upon Hematite Separat

Chemical Laboratory,

223, Market Street,
Harrisburg

Thomas A. Edison, Esq., Orange, N.J.

Dear Sir, — In presenting the following report, I take the
your letter dated February 23rd, in which you say: “I have 1

The following is a short description of the Edison Process.

REMARKS ON No. 5 SAMPLE; FINAL CONCENTRATE SPECULAR
HEMATITE. — This Specular IJematite, as explained at the outset of my report, pre¬
sented, what was at one time, .the great difficulty of separation owing to the Ore being
only very slightly magnetic. It is therefore very satisfactory to know from these analyses
that the same remarks apply to the Specular as to the Magnetite, viz., that the Ore has
been changed from an impure condition to one high in Iron and low in Sulphur and
Phosphorus, and made entirely suitable for the manufacture of high-class Steel by the
Acid processes.

No. ^Analyses of Apatite shows, by the separation process, that the Phosphorus

It is therefore evident from the foregoing that the Edison process of
separating the Dunderland Ore from its gangue is quite successful.

Yours faithfully,

Extract from the Presidential Address (1901) to the Iron and Steel Institute, by
Mr. William Whitwell, of the Thornaby Iron Works, Thornaby-on-Tees.

(1) By far the greater part of our steel in this country is made by the acid Bessemer
and Siemens , processes, requiring a pure pig iron as low in phosphorus as possible,

t he question, then, of the supply of pure ore to make; this class of pig iron, is one

which will have to be faced by us in the near future. Our only native supply of pure
ore of the Cumberland district is rapidly approaching exhaustion. In many works the
ore now used is of very much lower yield of iron than it used to be, and Spanish and
other foreign ore is being imported in increasing quantities to help out the local supply.
Un the. east coast and in other hematite iron-making districts, nothing but foreign

ore is used, the greater part coming from Bilbao. We often hear reports of the near

exhaustion of this famous, deposit, and recently — ...... . ...

id the Bilbao exports of the last five
•e taken from C. E. Muller and Co.’s am
om north Spanish ports near Bilbao:

means at hand for verifying this estimate,
irs do not enlighten us. These statistics
il report, and include the ore also shipped

4,959,803

■ fg %

Though there was a steady decrease from 1896, there was a sudden increase of
er one million tons in 1899, the highest export on record. Last year showed a decrease
60,000 tons, but whether due to diminished wmni« nr - - - -

Col. Turretini, of Geneva, formerly employed on the Niagara and Get
lations, was, on the recommendation of Mr. T.' A. Edison and Lord Kelv
requested by the Edison Ore Milling Syndicate to survey and report or
power available on the Dunderland property. In the course of his reporl
as follows : —

As per request I went during the course of July to Mo, in order to visit I
“ Renfossen,” which you desire to utilise for supplying motive power necs
exploitation of the Iron Ore beds of Urtvand, situated about ten kilomel
Waterfall, “ Renfossen,” which themselves are about fifteen kilometers dist;

On the 19th July I visited “Renfossen” together with Dr. Lehman
you that the “ Renfossen ” waterfall is fed by the Dunderland River, which
kilometre above the fall received an important confluence coming fro
Langvand.

An approximate test made on the 1 9th July, together with Dr. Lehn
a volume of water of about 550 cubic metres per second. According to I
made by Dr. Lehmann, the low water in winter time will reach r5o cubic met
mg to the state of the banks the exceptional high water must considerably

Dr. Lehmann informed. me that your Syndicate desired to utilise at th
ment 4,000 effective H.P. (B.H.P.) on the turbine shaft, to be increased
1 0,000 H.P., which will be required.

According to a measurement made duiing the last days in July by Dr. :
gross height of the fall was a little more than 30 metres. Supposing that I
fall of 30 metres were reduced to 25 metres, owing to loss by friction in
and pipes and to the variations caused by die season, the volume of water
obtaining 10,000 H.P. on the turbine shaft (taking the useful effect of the
per cent.) would be 40 cubic metres.

This proyes that under any circumstances the waterfall, “Renfossei
supply, and supply more than the 10,000 H.P. required, and that this fig
trebled or even quadrupled if it were necessary.

EXPENSES.

ESTIMATE,
oposal on the le

Works for the bringing up of the water to

Covered over Canal ... .

Distribution Chamber

Grids ’ . .

Wrought Iron Piping (3 for 3
Turbines) 2m. 300 dram.

Turbine House
Turbines and Accessories

Dynamos and Tablets .

Escape Canal ... : .

First stage of Total price for

These figures are of course only approximate, but are based upon reliable data and
upon the cost of similar works already executed in connection with waterfalls, the con¬
ditions of which were practically the same (turbines of 1,800 H.P., and a waterfall of 27m.)

The price of the installation per turbine H.P., including the electric installation,
would therefore be for 4,000 H.P. (plus 2,000 in reserve) 320 francs per H.P. ; for 10,000
H.P. (plus 2,000 in reserve) 209 francs per H.P.

These figures are extremely low.

Col. Turretini then discusses the steps necessary to avoid ice difficulties in the
event of severe weather, and proceeds : —

At “ Renfossen,” according to the information obtained, the river freezes above the
falls to a great distance, for the speed of the river is very slight and the sheet of water
forms a tranquil lake. It seems, therefore, that the conditions are favourable for admit¬
ting of continuous work during the winter, excepting a stoppage for one or two days at
the time when the layer of superficial ice is forming, in November, and another stoppage
for one or two days when the ice breaks up in the Spring. /

(Signed) COL. TURRETINI.

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Dryer House

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Rod Stod House

Storage capacity 10,500 tons.

Weighing and Mixing House

Two receiving bins, capacity 60 tons each.
T wo weighing bins, capacity i o tons each.

Small Rock Stock House

Chalk Grinding House

grinding rolls ; others arc to be added,
bringing them up to a producing capacity
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When the house is increased as shown by
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per day.

Engine, vertical cross-compound con¬
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Boiler House

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To be increased so as to co
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Clinker Stock House
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grinding rolls.

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Cincinnati, 0.

Constructed by Field, Booker & Underwood, _
feet in diameter; depth, 16 feet; capacity, 12,000,000
— Edison Cement UBed exclusively.

L _

The Edison Portland Cement Company increased their capacity

Residues are present because the manufacturer
We reduce the evil to i

conomically.

" All coarse particles, i. e.
should he removed, as they do

lumps of
together i

GREAT FALLS STATION, SOUTHERN POWER 00.

'QUISISANA” SPRING AND CASINO, GREEN COVE SPRINGS, FLORIDA.
Designed and Erected by LOUIS H. McKEE, Trenton, N. J.

Edison Portland Cement used exclusively.

100-mesh sieve
se requirements

DEAL BEACH CASINO, REINFORCED
WESTLEORAFT & SON, Contractors, Bemardsville, New J

CONCRETE THROUGHOUT,
rorsey. DAVID AO]

clusively.

passing a 200-mesh

lbs. per barrel.

STANDARD ROLLER-BEARING BUILDING, PHILADELPHIA, PA.
BALLINGER & PERROT, Engineers and Architects
Philadelphia, Pa.

A few years ago IB per cent, was permitted
Now the usual maximum allowable is 8 per cent

appreciated everywhere.

HEYWOOD BROS. & WAKEFIELD GO’S BUILDING,
Fifth and Locust Streets, Philadelphia.
PERROT, Architects, Philadelphia. MOORE & 00., Inc., Oont

Primary Printed Series
Edison Storage Battery Company

"The Edison Storage Battery, 1903." 1904.

"A Few Suggestions for Central Station Managers, Containing Some
Advertisements We Have Used and Are About To Use for the New
Edison Storage Battery." Ca. 1910.

"The Edison Storage Battery: Useful Information." Form 90. 1910.

"The Edison Storage Battery." Form 75. 1910.

"The 1910 Edison Storage Battery," by Walter Holland. 1910. [Bound with
"A Test of the Edison Storage Battery," by the Electrical Testing
Laboratories. Both papers were read at the annual meeting of the
Association of Edison Illuminating Companies, Thousand Islands, NY,
September 6-8, 1910.]

The EDISON
STORAGE
BATTERY

SHE EDISON STORAGE
BATTERY COMPANY

announces the final completion

which, it is believed, will solve
the problem of vehicle traction in a perfectly satisfac¬
tory manner.

Before starting on his long and exhaustive series
of experiments in search of 'an improved electric
storage battery, Mr. Edison came to the conclusion
that a successful battery must possess the following
requirements before a satisfactory solution of the
vehicle traction problem could be found. .

First. That no corrosive acids should be used,
hence the liquid must be an alkali.

Second. That all the active materials used must
be insoluble in the liquid.

Third. That the liquid should under all con¬
ditions of charge or discharge remain the same.

Fourth. That the materials should be light in
weight.

' Fifth. That the mechanical construction should
be strong.

Sixth. That there should be practically no dis¬
integration or deterioration from use.

’ Seventh. That the operation of charging ' and
discharging the battery and its care should be of so
simple a character that the layman could get as
good results as the expert.

Eighth. That it should ' not be injured by over¬
charging, by heavy discharges, by discharging to
zero, by standing charged, partially charged or com¬
pletely discharged for any length of time.

Ninth. That the rate of charge and discharge
should be high.

Tenth. Finally, that the weight per horse-power
per hour should be small and the capacity cbnstant
over long periods of time.

We believe that in the battery now offered by
us, Mr. Edison has achieved every one of the above
requirements. Experiments with our batteries in
automobiles, in actual practice, extending over a
period of more than one year, show that there is no
appreciable deterioration mechanically or electri¬
cally, and while no one can predict the future, we
firmly believe that our battery will last for many
years and prove perfectly satisfactory to the public.

Fig. i.

TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION

general appearance the cell is most

I lilllt construct>01'1 throughout. Every
M Eg opportunity for improvement has

been embraced, regardless of cost, and

ness in design, strength, durability or lasting qualities of the
cell has been neglected. The structural .material of which
the cell is composed is steel. The grids and cups that sup¬
port the active material, the connecting and binding posts,
the spacing washers, nuts, containing envelope or jar and
cover are all made of steel. In fact, the entire cell is con¬
structed of steel, except for a small amount of hard rubber
used to insulate the plates from the sides, bottom arid cover
of the containing envelope and each adjacent plate from its
neighbor. Consequently, the cell is of a most lasting and
enduring nature throughout.

Each individual metal piece employed in the construc¬
tion of the cell is plated before use with a heavy coat of
nickel, which, by special process, is fused to the steel.
This adds materially to the durability and finish of the cell.

The active materials — consisting of specially-prepared
oxides of nickel and iron — are loaded into very finely per¬
forated cups or pockets. Each cup or pocket is made in two
sections, one engaging within the other. (See Figs. 3 and 4.)

When filled with active material, twenty-four (24) of
these little cups or pockets are placed in twenty-four (24)
suitable rectangular openings in a thin grid (see Fig. 6)
and the whole is subjected to a very high pressure. This
locks the two sections of each cup firmly together and at
the same time fastens them securely in the grid. The
result is an extremely strong plate mechanically and one of
remarkable lightness. (See Fig. j.)

Electrically the plate is highly satisfactory, as each little
pocket becomes almost an integral part of the supporting
grid when subjected to high pressure.

The eye can detect practically no difference in general
appearance between a plate loaded with nickel oxide and
one loaded with iron oxide

In the Type “D” cell, consisting of 28 plates and
which we are now prepared to supply, fourteen (14) nickel
plates— plates loaded with nickel oxide— are strung on a
connecting rod to which is fastened a suitable binding post.
Each plate is separated from the next by a spacing washer
and the whole is held firmly in place by a nut which screws
on the end of the connecting rod. (See Fig. 9.)

These fourteen (14) nickel plates are connected to the
positive pole of the cell.

Fourteen (14) iron plates — plates loaded with iron
oxide — are assembled in identically the same manner as are
the fourteen (14) nickel plates. 'These are connected to
the negative pole of the cell.

The positive and negative elements are so assembled
that each iron plate has a nickel plate on either side of it •
each nickel plate an iron plate on either side of it, except
in the case of the two end plates, one of which i4 a nickel
the other an iron plate. (See Fig. 8.) The outer surfaces
of these two plates are in juxtaposition with two sheets of
hard rubber that insulate the plates from contact with the
sides of the containing jar.

The iron and nickel plates are prevented from coming
in contact by means of hard rubber rods of a diamond¬
shaped cross section, a number of which are placed between
each set of abutting nickel and iron plate surfaces. (See

Fig- <?•) .

In the near future, cells having fewer plates and others
with more than twenty-eight plates as in Tyfie “ D,” will
be manufactured to cover all the requirements of the
trade.

The containing envelope or jar is made of corrugated
sheet steel, the sides of which are prevented from coming
in contact with the plates by the sheets of hard rubber
mentioned above. The ends and bottom of the jar are
protected from contact with the plates by means of specially
designed pieces of hard rubber. (See Fig. 7.)

The cover is securely soldered to the jar by a special
solder. On the cover are mounted two stuffing boxes
through which the binding posts, fastened to the positive
and negative elements of the cell, extend.

There are two other mountings on the cover. (See
Fig. 10.) One is called a “Separator.” The function of
this is to separate the spray from the gases when the-
battery is charged, thus preventing loss of potash and
causing the gases to be inodorous. ; \

The other is called a “ Filler.”" The function of this
is to afford a suitable passage through which the electrolyte
— a 20-per cent, solution of potash — may be supplied to
the cell and through which Distilled Water may be added
to the cell from time to time as the level of the electrolyte
is lowered by evaporation and overcharging.

The “ Filler ” has a water-tight cover which is held in
place by a strong catch (see Fig. 1 1). Fastened to the
cover is a small spring which causes it to fly open when the
catch is released and it cannot be closed again without some

possiblespillingof solution

Fig. 12. Hard Rubber Cell Separators and should the Cells be Severely
Pray Insulator agitated.

Each individual cell is held securely in place and free
from contact with its neighbor by a very ingenious little
rubber device which performs the double office of insulator
between cells and lock to hold them firmly in position
in the trays.

Every cell rests upon a thin sheet of hard rubber
pressed into a suitable shape. This effectually insulates
the cells from the bottom of the trays. (See Fig. 12.)

In the bottom of each cell are four small indentations.
These fit over conveniently arranged little wooden buttons
protruding from the upper side of the tray bottom and
prevent the cells from becoming displaced by sudden jolts
or shocks while affording a very rigid yet elastic support.

The connection between cells is made by means of

heavy solid copper wire .

of each copper connector
are screwed specially
shaped steel lugs which
fit over the binding posts
and make a taper joint
connection with them, in¬
suring a perfect electrical

A nut holds each lug securely in place. This makes bad
contact impossible even though the battery is subjected to
extremely violent jolting such as it often receives in electric
automobiles.

A socket wrench for removing the nuts which hold
down the connectors and a specially designed jack for lifting
the lugs from the binding posts when disconnecting the cells
are sent with each battery (see Fig. 14). Also a patented

funnel equipped with .an indicator which shows when the right
mount pf' olution In teen put ,n the cell (SecT.jp, j V
•’’‘A length of rubber hose and a copper jean .t S’ hold|
enough^ distilled water ' to supply the requirements o^ the
l|at^ery"for some little time can also be supplied at nominal
cost. .By using the can in connection with the funnel the
battery may be supplied with such water as it needs with
the minimum of labor, time and expense.

'• Supplying

From the above description and from the illustrations
shown, it can readily be seen that Mr. Edison has
developed this cell to a very high state of perfection.

Of course, any number of cells may be connected
together to form a battery of any desired power.

The cells are put up in nicely finished wooden trays.
These are built in three standard sizes, namely, to hold
four, five and six cells.

Jf.=The jcompany. ioes'not encoufage'the'use^of singie tra
hqldiiig more tharfsix cells, owing to the ii'fficuity thaVmi
be experienced in Handling them readily: . p-y-

Thc trays are made of a very strong and lasting wot
(see Fig. 2), the pores of every piece of which are fill!
with a preparation before it is assembled to preserve it.

This company owns and controls the following Unite
States patents of Thomas A. Edison, which fully prote
its products and processes.

678,722 Dated July 1 6th, 1901
684,204 “ October 8th, 1901

684,20; •• October 8th, 1901

692,507 •* February 4th, 1902

700.136 •« May 13th, 1902

700.137 *■ May 13th, 1902

701,804 " June 3d, 1902

704.303 ■< July 8th, 1902

704.304 ■■ July 8th, 1902

704.305 July 8jh, 1902 ' :

704.306 <• July 8th, 1902

721,682 •* March 3d, 1903

. 721,870 “ March 3d, 1903

723.449 “ March 24th, 1903

723.450 •* March 24th, 1903

727.117 May 5th, 1903

727.1 18 “ May 5th, 1903

Other patents pending

The company also operates under license from M
Edison, Patent No. 734,522, dated July 28th, 1903.

1,776,000 jolts” of i inch each

Here is the apparatus used by Mr. Edison in test¬
ing the mechanical strength, of the Edison Storage
Battery. Like all his tests, the strain imposed was many
times greater than will ever be met with in practice.

The cell was raised and dropped one-half an
incA h 7 J 6,0 00 times— a million and three quarter
half -inch jolts aggregating 74,000 feet.

Edison battery points ... Edison method combining

ngnt weight and rugged strength
• °lf|»v'rirbrro7w!H enabled the cell to go through the
NTjH|Si?,n,C0 ,or lruck onJ test uninjured.

^Hn°ShSuiin *“! n,‘™ Neither its electrical capacity nor
mechanical construction were im-
Paired in, afiy way, because steel,
iron and nickel will endure shocks
N.fggfE’SS#! that heayy lead , plates cannot posl
sibly undergo.

. .I,' Not to mention the disintegration

^iSfy'SiSVeSSSorthlmi? actiye material found in the old

s only 8tmaterira]B style lead batteries.

running lx- The E Ji»on Storage Battery Perfects the One

Weak Link in the Electric Vehicle Chain

Edison Storage Battery Company, _L.te.ueAv^.«r,WI.,

The One Weak Spot

In Electric Wagon Success

Everybody in the business knows what has retarded the ad¬
vance to which Electric Vehicles have been rightfully entitled,
— (1) heavy lead batteries fhat required constant supervision at
the hands of an expert, and (2) even then a short life in heavy
work of from 8 to 15 months at best— ‘

.Lead batteries could not be depended upon, not for any lack of skill on the part of the
manufacturer, but because of the inherent defects In the principle involved. They were
heavy in weight and rapidly decreased in capacity even under the expert supervision of skilled battery
experts.

The weak spot that so checked Electric Vehicle progress ceased to exist with the advent
ofr the Edison Storage Battery, because this battery overcomes all the objections to the
lead-acid combination. It has no lead to crumble; no acids to destroy. Therefore there
is no corrosion, no dropping out of active material. The weight is one-half for the same
output. The capacity, instead of falling off, increases with use. due to the better contact
of the active materials and the conductors.

The value of all the horses in the United States is $3,400,000,000 — over
3 h billions of dollars !

The value of the hay and oat crops in 1909 was $1,097,519,000— more
than twice the value of the wheat crop !

These vast sums give an idea of the size of the trucking business, which is
being constantly deflected from the Central Stations and Vehicle Makers,
because in the past the only storage battery available was the lead-acid com¬
bination with its great weight, short life and multiplied troubles.

The electric wagon was all right — the electric motor perfect — but the
battery was the weak link in the chain.

The Edison Storage Battery puts the electric wagon and truck business
largely in the hands of the Central Stations for the future, because of its Light
Weight, Rugged Strength and Reliability, without the trouble man as a
constant factor and the repairs, washings, etc., heretofore linked in as an in¬
tegral part of the storage battery business. '

EDISON BATTERY POINTS

One Edison Battery will outlast 6 to 8 lead batteries in the hands of the layman,
not to mention the 'tremendous item of repairs and main¬
tenance required by even the best of the lead batteries

EDISON STORAGE BATTERY, Lakeside Avenue, Orange, N. J.

less than H

The Edison Storage Battery weighs Jess than one-
half what lead batteries weigh for the same capac¬
ity, covering active use during one year.

This advantage in vehicle work can be utilized
either to reduce the total batteiy weight or to
increase the output or mileage radius.

A striking example of this can be seen in a large ,
manufacturing plant in Jersey which . had two
5-ton trucks with lead batteries. Finding these
wholly unsatisfactory climbing steep hills, they
adopted the Edison Storage Battery for one of
these trucks. After four months’ use they equip¬
ped the second truck with an Edison Battery.

The salient points of the Edison Storage Battery
are Reliability, Economy of Operation, and a great
final economy in cost of the battery by reason of
its long life.

Even for heavy truck service we are able to offer
a guarantee of three years’ life. The factor of
safety to ourselves when making this minimum
guarantee is evidence of a battery life far in
excess of the three-year minimum.

Edison Storage Battery Company

, 104 Lakeside Avenue, Orange, N. J.

One of Two Things

The Edison Storage Battery increases the effective
mileage of Electric Vehicles — or reduces the weight
of the vehicle.

This is because, for each pound of weight, it gives an active service which is
twice the watt output that a lead battery is capable of giving in active
service over a period of only one year. The Edison Battery is legally
guaranteed for heavy-duty truck service for 3 years.

Such a tremendous advantage can be seized upon to reduce the total weight
ot the vehicle as well as that of the battery itself. Or to secure an increased
mileage— either or both— within motor-voltage limitations.

The one weak spot that has held back all the advances to which Electric Vehicles
have been rightfully entitled, has been the lead battery with Its great weight, troubles
and short life.

With a lighter and more rugged battery Electric Vehicles would, years ago,
have come into their own. The electric motor would have done for them
what it has done for street cars.

The Edison Storage Battery with its light, rugged construction combines
minimum weight with long life and reliability.

The legal guarantee given for the Edison Storage Battery in truck service is
5 years, but the actual, practical life is, of course, much longer. If this were
not so, the Edison Company could not afford a 3-year guarantee. The extra
. °J t‘le Edison Storage Battery is as much an advantage to the customer
as it is to the company making the guarantee.

The maintenance of storage batteries in heavy-duty trucks has been estimated
by truck manufacturers at 109 per cent, per annum. This prohibitive and
destructive depreciation has been eliminated by Mr. Edison’s eight years of
unremitting work on the storage-battery question.

To-day the pleasure vehicle or truck manufacturer, as well as his customer,
can count upon his battery as being an investment and not a running expense.

EDISON BATTERY POINTS :

1nyl _ Edison Storage Battery Company

104 Lakeside Avenue Orange, N. J.

Mr. Edison’s 8 Years’ Work

Sth Year’s Work

EDISON STORAGE BATTERY “COUPONS”

Edison Storage Battery Company

Lakeside Avenue, Orange, N. J.

“Is it going to take a quarter of a century to electrify commercial
transportation on highways and to popularize the electric pleasure
vehicle? Not if the central station knows its business. * * *"

New Edison
Storage Battery

has done more to popularize the electric pleasure vehicle than any¬
thing else since the beginning of the industry. Before the arrival of
the new Edison Storage Battery sixty-five miles was a good, day’s
work on a single charge for an electric pleasure vehicle. Vehicles
equipped with the new Edison. Storage Battery are to-day giving
from ioo to 130 miles, and even better, on a single charge, and
they can be run to complete discharge without injury.

And what the Edison is doing in the pleasure vehicle field
it is duplicating in the commercial vehicle field-^it has made the
electric truck practical.

The Edison is different. ' There is no lead or acid in its con¬
struction. It is iron and nickel in caustic potash. Its weight, per
capacity, is just about half that of the ordinary lead battery.
There is no depreciation as in the lead battery. On the contrary,
after the first 25 or thirty discharges there is an actual increase of
25 to 30 per cent in capacity.

The Edison Storage Battery is the biggest thing in
sight for you to increase your off-peak load and
bring home the extra profit. Boost Edison Stor¬
age Battery Equipment in the vehicles your cus¬
tomers buy.

Edison Storage Battery Co., i06 Lakeside Ave., Orange, N. J.

Automobile battery charging provides an almost ideal off-
peak load on account of its steadiness and continuity. The
volume of business which a single electric truck furnishes
for the central station in the course of a year is well worth
securing, and at a rate which a tracts the service. * *

* * Even a small company ought to soon reach

the- point where its income from electric vehicles is from
$j,ooo to $10,000 a year.” — From the Central Station.

New Edison
Storage Battery

is the battery equipment you should recommend to
every- electric vehicle purchaser

On account of the greater mileage of the new Edison Storage Battery much more
current will be sold.

There will be more electric vehicles on the road this year than ever before in the
history of the industry— thanks to the Edison Storage Battery. There will be more new electric
vehicles equipped witn the Edison Stotage Battery than equipped with batteries of any
other one make— and they will be the cars that will stay “in commission” all the year round.

The new Edison Storage Battery is practically fool-proof. You don’t have to make
an electrical expert of every purchaser of an electric vehicle if the car he buys is equipped
with the Edison. The Edison is not injured by overcharging nor by too rapid discharge,
nor even by complete discharge. It is not injured by standing idle for any length of time,
either charged or discharged.

One of the biggest arguments for the electric vehicle over the gasoline vehicle is the
little care the electric requires— its extreme simplicity. This argument is true of the
electric vehicle equipped with the Edison Storage Battery— and it is not true of the vehicle
equipped with the lead battery which requires as much knowledge and care and attention
as a gasoline motor— and in spile of which care and attention the lead battery deteriorates,
while the Edison Storage Battery actually increases in capacity over the same period.

The new Edison Storage Battery is doing more to boost your game
and bring home an off-peaK profit than anything else in the electric
vehicle field. It’s up to you to boost for the Edison Storage Battery as
equipment for every electric vehicle purchased in your vicinity.

Edison Storage Battery Company

106 Lakeside Ave., Orange, N. J.

The same electric motor which has made modern
street railways successful would make electric vehicles
successful — with a light, fool-proof, powerful battery
behind it.

The motor is all right, the electric wagon is all right — -
the battery has been the weak spot.

Horses are more handicapped in drawing wagons than
they were when drawing street-cars, because the horse-
cars ran on smooth steel ways, while wagons run on
the rough road ways.

If the power had been ready to back up the electric
motor 20 years ago, the K.W. hours consumed by
electric trucks would today total more than the whole
street railway output of electrical energy.

Impossible?

No; statistics show that not only does the truck business
exceed in tonnage the street railway business— and on
rough roads that require more power to run it — but the
number of tons transported by horses in the United
States is 2i£ times the number of tons moved by all
the steam railroads— tons, of course, not ton-miles.

pi. r» The Edison Storage Battery

Edison Battery with its light weight, great
Pnintc power and ability to deliver

* uuub that power down to a complete

'‘tffih? mi"1' pou"d °* 8 "ll 6 discharge of the battery, clears

k iKWir double tha Ww.r tor it,, the way by removing the only
OTIUo" oi . ceii win not in. objection to the use of electrics
Tb-y« iruarnntee (or truck .mi weson for both pleasure and business

No lead!* no .clj-con.eouently-no ecld pUrpOSCS.

Edison Battery
Points

Nin liMe^^'VoLTwHh •

A 3-year guarantee given by
this Company has such a large
factor of safety behind it that
the Edison Storage Battery
may well be considered an
investment, not a running
expense.

sss"'s?ikot%F'3CStArE

Edison Storage Battery Company

104 Lakeside Avenue, Orange, N. J.

THE EDISON
STORAGE BATTERY

Contents

Page

Foreword ------

Definitions ------

General Description -

Charging Requisites -

Charging

Discharge ------

Output and Efficiency - - - -

Incidental Considerations - - -

Temperature -----

Filling -------

Cleaning ------

Electrolyte . - ,

Retaining Cans - - - - -

Connectors - - - -

Trays -------

Most Important Facts to be Remembered

(

Shipment - - -

L _ : _ _

THE EDISON STORAGE BATTERY

Foreword

IN the following pages we have endeavored
to set forth as clearly and concisely as pos¬
sible useful hints and information relating to the
care and operation of the Edison Storage Battery.

This Battery is built of durable materials of
the highest grade and the rugged beauty of its
design is absolutely unique and not attainable
in any other battery. The care necessary to
obtain the best of service, together with a very
long life, is of a simple nature, and we are
confident that the layman, by following our
instructions, will obtain most satisfactory results.

THE EDISON STORAGE BATTERY

Definitions

Battery A group of any number of cells connected
together and used for one general purpose.

Tray A wooden frame having convenient hard

rubber insulators in which cells are held firmly
• in position and mutually insulated.

Cell The unit of a battery, consisting of the

positive electrode and the negative electrode
assembled in the retaining can with the neces¬
sary internal insulators and the electrolyte.

Retaining The nickel-plated receptacle in which the

Can electrodes and electrolyte are contained.

Positive A group of nickel plates — that is, plates con-

Electrode the nickel active material — assembled

in multiple and connecting with the positive
pole of the cell.

Negative A group of iron plates— that is, plates con-

Electrode taining the iron active material — assembled
in multiple and connecting with the negative
pole of the cell.

Electro- The liquid in which the electrodes are
*yte immersed, consisting of a solution of pure
potassium hydrate in distilled water.

Tubes The round perforated metal retainers, loaded
with nickel active material, which, when
secured in a grid, compose a positive plate.

Pockets The flat perforated metal retainers, loaded
with iron active material, which, when secured
in a grid, compose a negative plate.

Gas Valve A mounting on the cell-cover, which per-

Separator f°rms the function of allowing gas to escape
freely, but prevents the ingress of any gas,
liquid, or solid, from the outside. It also acts
as a separator, freeing the escaping gas of the
fine spray of electrolyte which it would other¬
wise carry out, and returning this to the main
body of the solution.

Filling The opening at the top of a cell,., through
Aperture ^ich electrolyte is introduced and distilled
water is added. This vent is normally closed
by a gas-tight spring cap.

THE EDISON STORAGE BATTERY

General Description

IN appearance the new “A” type of cell (to which this
booklet relates) resembles closely the old “E” type,
the only radical change being in the construction of
the nickel or positive plate. Formerly, flat rectangular
pockets were used for retaining both the nickel and the
iron active materials. These are still used for the iron,
but for the nickel material round tubes J^-inch in
diameter and 4% inches long are now used. A positive
plate contains thirty (30) of these tubes placed in a ver¬
tical position in two rows, and held securely in place by
a steel supporting grid.

The tube itself is made of thin perforated steel which,
when filled with active material and properly bound by
small steel rings, makes expansion of the active material
impossible, and thereby insures perfect internal contacts.
A great improvement has also been made in the nickel
active material, by substituting electro-chemically pre¬
pared flakes of pure nickel metal in place of the flake
graphite, which was formerly used, to increase the con¬
ductivity of the active mass. In this new cell also are
embodied- a number of minor improvements which
facilitate the handling to a great extent. All of these

THE EDISON STORAGE BATTERY

changes in construction are the direct result of practical
experience.

A cell derives its type number from the number of
positive plates contained therein; e. g., an “A-4” cell
contains four positive or nickel plates.

A polarity mark is stamped in the cover of every cell
alongside of the positive pole. The unmarked pole, of
course, is negative.

Following are the cell dimensions in inches, and
weights in pounds:

“A-4”

“A-6”

“A-8”

Width of can (outside)

Breadth of can “

Height of can “

12%

Height of cell to top of pole

(not assembled)

13 %

13%

Required height of battery

compartment

.15

Weight of complete cell

13.5

19.2

25.2

THE EDISON STORAGE BATTERY

Charging Requisites

STORAGE batteries cannot be charged with alter¬
nating current; the current must in all cases be
“direct.”

When the only available charging source is an alter¬
nating current circuit, it can be changed into direct cur¬
rent by means of either a motor-generator set or a mer¬
cury-arc rectifier. We recommend the latter where oniy
one battery is to be charged, on account of its lower cost
and good efficiency. Where a number of batteries are
to be charged at one time a motor-generator set of
sufficient capacity is more economical.

To maintain the normal rate throughout the charge,
the line voltage must average at least 1.85 times the
number of cells in series. For example, to charge sixty
cells in series it would be necessary to have a- line voltage
of 60 times 1.85 volts, or 111 volts.

The following table shows the voltage necessary to
charge various numbers of cells at normal rate:

20 cells require line voltage of 37. Volts.

30 “ “ “ “ 55.5 “

40 “ “ “ “ “ 74. “

cn “ “ “ “ “ 92.? “

60 cells require line voltage of 111. Volts.

70 “ “ “ “ “ 130. “

80 “ “ “ “ “ 148. “

If the line voltage be 2% or 3% lower than that speci¬
fied in the table it will not interfere materially with the
charge, the only difference it will make being at the end
of the charge, at which time it will be impossible to
maintain the normal rate. A battery of 60 cells can be
charged very satisfactorily on the universal direct current
line of 110 volts.

A higher line voltage than that specified can, of course,
be used by the employment of a suitable resistance.

In the majority of cases batteries are charged on a
direct, current line of a fixed voltage, in which case it is
necessary to have a rheostat (preferable of the iron grid
type), or some other suitable resistance, in series with the
battery. This is usually mounted on the switchboard.

This rheostat or resistance will enable one to regulate
at will the number of amperes flowing. As the charge
progresses it will be found necessary to keep cutting out
resistance in order to maintain a fixed rate.

THE EDISON STORAGE BATTERY

Charging

EDISON STORAGE BATTERIES are shipped
in a discharged condition, and must be charged
fifteen hours at the normal rate before using.

This overcharge should be repeated after every 12 or
IS complete discharges or the equivalent thereof, until 4
overcharges have been given; thereafter a battery should
be overcharged about once in two months.

The normal charge-rate of the “A-4” type is 30 am¬
peres; of the “A-6” type 45 amperes, and of the “A-8”
type 60 amperes. <

The normal rate may be maintained throughout the
charge. It is not necessary, under ordinary circum¬
stances, to cut down or diminish the rate as the charge
progresses; but this should be done when the heating is
excessive.

Charging may be done at double the normal rate for
a one-hour boost.

If the charging voltage available is such that the
normal rate cannot be maintained, the battery may be
charged at a lower rate for a longer length of time.

Very low charge rates are not good. The minimum
rate that should be maintained throughout a charge is 20
amperes for the “A-4” type of cell; 30 amperes for the
“A-60” type, and 40 amperes for the “A-8” type.
Toward the end of a charge the rate may be cut down to
one-third the normal.

A seven-hour charge at normal rate is taken as a normal
charge. But this is not fixed, and the length of charge
may be varied from 4 to 10 hours at normal rate, accord¬
ing to the amount of work to be done, as explained
under “Output and Efficiency,” on page 17.

It will be seen by the characteristic charge curve that
the voltage of an Edison Storage Battery has, a general
tendency upward during charge although it may re¬
coil a few points in the first hour or two. When the
state of full charge is reached the voltage assumes a con¬
stant value. It is therefore possible, after some experi¬
ence, to determine when a battery is charged by making
careful observations of its voltage. No absolute figure
can be given for the full-charge voltage, as this is varied
by the battery temperature, condition of the electrolyte.

THE EDISON STORAGE BATTERY

etc. ; but under normal conditions the voltage across the
battery terminals at the end of charge will average 1.80
to 1.8S volts per cell at the normal current rate.

As a general rule it may be said that a battery is prac¬
tically charged when — all conditions being normal — the
voltage has exceeded 1.8 volts per cell and has remained
constant for a period of 30 to 40 minutes.

The difficulty in charging by voltage is that under
certain conditions the voltage may rise to an abnormal
value early in the charge and mislead one into thinking
that the state of full charge has been reached. When
this abnormal rise occurs it will be noticeable during the
first hour or two of charge, and is usually followed by a
dropping back to normal voltage, so that, with a little
experience, one can easily recognize this false indication
and ignore it.

Overcharging is not harmful, but necessitates frequent
filling of cells, wastes current and is apt to cause excessive
heating. For these reasons it should not be made a
practice of except at the intervals recommended, or
occasionally when an extra long discharge is desired.

The output will not be so good if the temperature
during charge is below 70° Fahr.; but the nearer the
temperature can be kept to this minimum figure the
better will be the results, both as to immediate output
and life.

When a battery has remained idle for a considerable
length of time the first charge before going into service
should be long.

Never hold a lighted match or any naked flame near
a battery while it is charging or immediately afterwards,
as an explosion of the evolved gases might ensue.

THE EDISON STORAGE BATTERY

Discharge

THE normal discharge rates are the same as the
normal charge rates, viz., “A-4” 30 amperes,
“A-6” 45 amperes, “A-8” 60 amperes.

The average discharge voltage of any type, working
at its normal rate, is 1.2 volts per cell, and the discharge
is practically complete when ah average of one volt per
cell is reached.

It is permissable to discharge a batteiy continuously
at rates up to 25% above normal; but this should be
avoided if possible, on account of the loss of voltage and
increase of heating caused thereby.

For occasional short intervals of time, as in climbing
hills or starting on heavy roads, no harm will result if
the rate be increased to three or four times the normal.

]

Output and Efficiency

f I 'VHE rated normal outputs of cells are as follows:

| “A-4” 150 ampere-hours, “A-6” 225 ampere-

hours, “A-8” 300 ampere-hours.

The capacity of an Edison Storage Battery increases
for some time after it has been put into service. A
battery will give not less than the rated output when
new, if charged normally; but after working some time
it will have better efficiency and will give a greater
output.

This process of self-forming continues over a period
of from one to three months of regular service, depend¬
ing on the conditions; and it is partly to assist in this
forming-up that overcharges must be given at intervals,
as recommended under “Charging,” on page 12.

A properly formed battery, besides having, higher
capacity, will have a longer life than one riot properly
treated. It is therefore very important to the user, as a
matter of ultimate economy, to follow closely our in¬
structions as to overcharging.

A valuable feature of the Edison Storage Battery
is that it always has a reserve capacity, which may
be utilized when necessary by extending the length

THE EDISON STORAGE BATTERY

of charge. The highest practical limit of output will be
reached when a battery is charged ten hours, at the
normal rate; and its value will be, for a fully-formed
battery, perhaps 30% more than the rated output. ' f '

Inside of this maximum working limit it is optional J

with the user as to the length of charge he shall employ,
and this should be regulated according to the output re¬
quired in any particular service.

It should be borne in mind, however, that in utilizing
the highest available capacity of a battery, efficiency is
sacrificed; that is, charging current is wasted. The wasted
current goes to decompose water which escapes as gas, (j

and consequently distilled water must be added to the f

cells more frequently than under normal conditions. '

Long charges also are likely to cause excessive heating,
and care should be taken to keep this within the pre¬
scribed limits.

On the other hand, if very high output is not required,

and a battery will do its work when charged say 4 to 7
hours at normal rate, the current efficiency will be very
high, and filling will not have to be attended to so fre- $

quently, while the amount of heating will be small. j

A seven-hour charge at normal rate is arbitrarily .

chosen as the normal charge, the reason being that under
these conditions the highest output obtainable with little
sacrifice of efficiency is realized.

Incidental

Considerations

LACK of capacity in a battery may be due to
i grounds between cans or through the supporting
structure; to low temperature, as on a cold
winter day; to depletion of potash in the electrolyte; or
to carbonation of the potash.

Grounds are best avoided by following closely the
directions as to “Cleaning,” on page 25, and by
taking care that retaining cans do not get together by
any chance and that nothing of a metalic nature gets
between them.

Depletion of the electrolyte is brought about princi¬
pally by improper filling of cells, for, when the solution
is too high above the plates, it is liable to be forced out
in bubbles by the escaping gas.

Carbonation comes from the use of water which has
been exposed to the air and has absorbed carbon dioxide
from it, or which has become carbonated in some
other way.

Depletion of electrolyte can be detected by specific
gravity readings, but the amount of carbonation can only
be determined by a chemical analysis. Both of these

troubles are remedied by a complete renewal of electro¬
lyte, which should be done, anyway, every eight to ten
months, as explained under “Electrolyte,” on page 26.

Temperature

If it should be found, in taking a specific gravity
reading, that the electrolyte in any cell is much weaker
than the average, this cell should be examined for a
possible leak. If a cell is found to be leaky it can be put
in a new retaining can at our factory.

The Edison Storage Battery may be allowed to stand
in a discharged condition any length of time without
injury, and, in fact, it is much better that it should be
discharged than charged when left to stand.

A battery can be put out of commission indefinitely if
care is taken to see that the outside of the retaining cans
are left clean and dry, and that the cells are in a dis¬
charged condition. It should be stored in a dry place,
and will require no attention other than an inspection
once in two or three months to make sure the solution
is kept at the proper height.

Do not put heavy weights on top of cells or stand on
them, as a permanent injury may be done.

THE best results are obtained from a battery when
the temperature is kept between 75° and 95°
Fahr. during charge. For this reason it is advis¬
able to have the garage reasonably warm in winter and
well ventilated in summer.

The battery compartment should always be kept open while
battery is charging. All holes or openings in battery com¬
partment should be sealed or closed tightly during the
cold winter months, so that the cells will retain their
heat while out on the road.

The temperature of a battery should not be allowed to
go above 105° Fahr. during charge, or 115° during dis¬
charge.

The lower the temperature is kept (within the pre¬
scribed limits) during charging, the longer will be the
life of the battery. -V-i. j- ;

In hot weather the temperature can be kept down
during charge by the use of an ordinary desk fan blowing
on the battery.

When the temperature of a battery falls below 50°
Fahr. during either charge or discharge, the output and
efficiency will be temporarily impaired.

Connect rubber tube to valve at bottom of tank.

Test filler before using, by making connection with a
piece of metal or a wire between the metal sleeve A and
the steel tube B. If bell rings when this is done the filler
is O. K,

Insert filler in opening of cell as far as it will go, taking
care to see that the metal sleeve A rests firmly on rim of
filler opening, thereby insuring contact.

Press down on wire lever on top of filler. This opens
valve.

When bell rings the solution has reached the proper
height.

Release valve and remove filler.

If the bell does not ring when a cell is properly filled
it is an indication of a weak potash solution, or that solu¬
tion was so low in cells that the fresh water added has not
had time to become thoroughly mixed; or it may be that
the bell is out of adjustment, or that the dry cells are
worn out.

Do not use die storage battery being filled to furnish
current in place of dry cells, as short-circuiting will
result.

Do not

Cleaning

rTyHE outside of the retaining cans should be kept clean
J- and dry.

If dirt is allowed to accumulate between the cells
it is liable to become moist with water and potash
and an electrolytic action will result, which in time may
corrode the retaining cans.

If the retaining cans become corroded or rusted they
should be coated on the sides and bottoms with vaseline.
It is not advisable to vaseline tops of cells.

For a thorough cleaning, cells should be taken out of
the trays, washed off and dried. The trays should be
cleaned and dried thoroughly before reassembling the
cells in same.

The block insulators or rubber aprons on which the
cells rest should always be cleaned and coated with
vaseline before reassembling. . '

Vaseline will not adhere to the retaining can if the
retaining can is moist.

leave distilled water in filler-tank when

THE EDISON STORAGE BATTERY

Electrolyte

THE Electrolyte in an Edison Storage Battery
is a 21% solution of Potash (KOH,), containing
a small amount of Lithium. Both of these in¬
gredients are alkaline.

Never under any condition put acid in the cells.

The normal specific gravity of a 21% solution of
Potash is 1.200.

The efficiency and capacity of a cell is not affected to
any great extent until the specific gravity falls below
1.160. If the specific gravity is allowed to fall below 1.160
a temporary effect will be noticed in output.

The specific gravity does not change during charge
or discharge.

If specific gravity readings are taken they should be
made at the end of a charge, by which time the distilled
water used in filling will have had ample time to mix
thoroughly.

The solution in an Edison Storage Battery in daily
operation should be changed every eight or ten months —
the old solution emptied out and new solution put in.
After pouring out the old solution fill immediately with
the new, being careful not to allow the cell to stand
empty for more than a few minutes.

Special potash solution for refilling may be obtained
from us. It requires about 1000 cubic centimeters or
2.64 pounds to refill an “A-4” cell, 1500 cubic centi¬
meters or 3.96 pounds to refill an “A-6” cell, and 200,000
cubic centimeters or 5.28 pounds to refill an “A-8” cell.

This new solution is shipped from the factory in iron
drums. By elevating the drum the solution can readily
be siphoned directly into the cells, thus eliminating the
necessity of handling it.

The special filling apparatus should not be used for
refilling cells with new electrolyte.

In case where the specific gravity falls below 1.160 it
is advisable to renew the whole electrolyte rather than
add potash solution, as by adding potash the solution is
liable to be made too strong, with the possibility that
permanent injury will result.

THE EDISON STORAGE BATTERY

Retaining Cans

THE EDISON STORAGE BATTERY cell is
encased in a thin steel retaining can.

This can is corrugated on the sides, pressed up
and the seams welded. It is impossible to remove the
cover without ruining the can. In view of the fact that
there is no deposit it is not necessary, after a cell is once
assembled at our factory, to get at the inside.

The retaining can is plated heavily, inside and out,
with nickel. This nickel-plating by a special process is
fused into the steel, and once in place forms a very
effective protection against rust and corrosion.

If the can is kept clean and dry it will last for years.
The potash solution has no injurious effect upon it.

Connectors

THE connectors used on an Edison Storage Battery
consist of three parts, namely the two terminal
lugs and a connecting piece of copper wire.

The copper wire is fitted into the lugs and the whole
swedged together.

The inside of the lug is drilled out and reamed on a
taper, and when placed in position over the binding post

and secured by means of a nut, forms a very superior
connection. As a precaution, however, it is advisable to
make a regular inspection of connectors. This should
be done a short time before the end of a charge by going
over and feeling of same. A hot connector should be
taken off and the inside of the lug, as well as the cell
pole, cleaned thoroughly. If a hot connector is caused
by a defective contact between the copper wire and the
lug itshould be taken off and a new connector substituted.

A special tool, known as a disconnecting jack, is
shipped with every battery. This tool is designed for
removing connectors.

To disconnect, take the nut from the top of the pole,
place the projections of the jack under the encircling rim
on top of the lug and screw down on the main screw.
Connectors can be taken off readily in this manner.

After the first few charges and discharges it is advis¬
able to go over the pole nuts and tighten same with the
socket wrench. We supply a special socket wrench for
tightening and removing the nuts.

THE EDISON STORAGE BATTERY

Trays

THE tray in which the cells are assembled is a very
decided improvement over the kind used hereto¬
fore, embodying as it does a very novel feature.
Where formerly a dovetail joint was used on the corners,
the wood strips are now one continuous piece, the cor¬
ners being bent. This makes a very light tray of great
strength.

Trays are dipped in a special insulating and protecting
composition before leaving our factory.

As a protection to the wood, and also to prevent any
possible loss of current, trays should be kept dry.

Following are the lengths in inches of the different
sizes of trays:

“A-4" “A-6” “A-8”

2-cell Tray 7 # 10 12*4

3 “ “ 10# 14# 18#

4 " “ 14 18# 24#

S " “ 17* 23 29f|

6 “ " 20* 27# 35#

7 “ “ 23* 31#

8 “ “ 26H 35#

9 “ " 30

10 “ “ 33#

All trays are 6% inches wide.

Clearance, or height of compartment, required —
15 inches.

The Most

Important Fads
To Be Remembered

USE only pure distilled water for filling.

Never allow the solution to get below the tops
of the plates.

Do not fill more than one-half inch above the plates.
Keep cells as cool as possible during charge, but not
cooler than 60° to 70° Fahr.

In winter keep cells warm while on the road, by
closing up tightly the battery compartment.

Be careful to keep all connections clean and in good
contact.

Keep the cells and trays dry and clean at all times.

THE EDISON STORAGE BATTERY

Shipment

ALL prices are f. o. b. Orange, N. J.

Batteries are shipped assembled in trays with all
necessary insulators and connectors in position.
Care should be taken in unpacking not to upset the
crate, as cells are properly filled with solution before
leaving the factory, ready to be installed and put on
charge.

On receipt of a battery it is advisable to inspect cells
to make sure the solution has not been spilled in ship-

Flexible connectors for making connections between
trays of cells are made in different lengths. They should
be ordered with the battery.

Unless otherwise ordered two terminal lugs will be
shipped with each battery.

We are not liable for damage to goods in transit; our
responsibility ceases when we deliver battery in good
order to the transportation company. All claims for
damage in transit must be made against the carrier.

Hu. EDISON
STORAGE
BATTERY

The Contents of this Book

The New Edison Storage Battery is Now Ready
Glossary of the Edison Storage Battery
Description of the Edison Storage Battery
Characteristic Features of the Edison Storage Battery
Commercial Tests of the Edison Storage Battery
Advantages of Motor over Horse Vehicles
Advantages of Electric over Gasoline Vehicles
Table of Data
Price List of Cells and Parts

The New

Edison Storage Battery
Is Now Ready

THE original Edison Storage Battery was launched six
years ago. It was the best storage battery which up
to that time had been produced. It eliminated the
serious drawbacks that interfered with the successful opera¬
tion of the lead battery, the only type of storage battery
popularly used. It was known as Type E.

In his first invention of a storage battery, Mr. Edison
made a radical departure from the working principles of all
former batteries. He started fresh, forgetting everything
that had hitherto been done. He saw at once that batteries
in which lead was the active material had too many inherent
defects to ever realize the full promise of electricity as a
motive power for vehicles.

Mr. Edison’s first battery was a success. It was tried
out and tested by disinterested parties. It proved lighter,
cleaner and cheaper. The greater initial cost was more
than offset by a lower cost of upkeep and operation. It gave
greater output for the same weight, did not deteriorate when
left uncharged, and was not injured by overcharging.

THE EDISON STORAGE BATTERY

Those who tried it were delighted with the results.

Over two hundred and fifty automobiles equipped
with this E type Edison Battery are now being used for
delivery purposes by some of the largest firms in. New York
and vicinity. These batteries have been in operation from
two to five years, and in almost every case they have proven
superior to iead batteries, and have given more economical
service than horses.

The cost of maintenance of over one hundred E type
batteries in electric automobiles, owned and operated by six
of the largest business houses in New York City, averaged
only $36.90 per battery-year during its life. This includes
all expenditures over a period of from three to five years of
continuous service. The automobiles, with hardly an excep¬
tion, did not lose a day on account of battery trouble.
Nothing hitherto produced in the way of a storage battery
can compare with this record for economy and reliability.

SO MUCH for the first Edison Battery. The results
would have satisfied anyone but an Edison. But Mr.
Edison saw a great future in the application of the
storage battery to the problem ' of -transportation. He also
saw that his battery could be improved, and that it must be
improved to solve that problem. So he set himself to work
to improve it.

But right here he did another characteristic Edison thing.

'HE EDISON STORAGE BATTERY

Mr. Edison said “No,” confined himself to his labora¬
tory, and after six years of persistent toil brought forth the
new Edison Storage Battery of which this booklet treats.

AN INCIDENT will give some idea of the immense
/ % amount of patient study and research required
to improve an already good battery. Mr. Edison
made nine thousand different experiments without obtaining
the results he wanted. A visitor to whom this was told
exclaimed :

“Then all these experiments were practically wasted.”

“Not at all,” cried Mr. Edison, leaping to his feet,
“I now know nine thousand things not to do.”

THE EDISON STORAGE BATTERY

There you have the temper of the man who has made
a storage battery that brings within easy reach a motive power
that is going to drive the many thousands of trucks and
delivery wagons that distribute the merchandise of the world.

The new Edison Storage Battery is as much better than
the original Edison Battery as that battery was better than
the lead battery.

THE possibilities of the Edison Storage Battery are
almost beyond calculation. Nearly every user of
commercial vehicles who has tried out the electric
automobile has found it in every way superior to and more
satisfactory than the horse-drawn vehicle. This was true
in a great many cases with the lead battery. It was unques¬
tionably true of the E Type Edison Battery. It is now placed
beyond the reach of argument or contradiction by the newly

THE EDISON STORAGE BATTERY

of its battery, and the weight of the goods to be delivered.
The short mileage from a single charge of the batteries
limited its use considerably.

But in spite of this and other drawbacks, the use of
electrically driven wagons has increased.

It is certain, however, that with the new Edison Battery
it will increase at an unheard of rate.

Says the Electric Vehicle and Central Station :

“Where electric trucks are shown to the best advantage is in the
use of a machine that will at once displace a 4 or 6 horse team. This
affords a most striking example of the advanced stage that has been
attained in commercial city transportation.

“This kind of work means more miles and quicker transit of

extra heavy loads than is possible with horse haulage, and a full day’s
work on one charge of the batteries. The cost of the battery charge is
less than the cost of horse feed, and the whole cost per ton-mile about
one-half the real cost of horse haulage. The expense of keeping horses
is constant even during Sundays, holidays and slack periods ; the electric
wagon immediately ceases in cost when at rest.

“ When the cost per ton-mile is stated, it means that all the items
of interest on investment, depreciation, repairs and maintenance, insurance,
labor, rent, lubrication, etc., have been analyzed and the cost actually
compiled and compared from real work performed by horse haulage and
electric delivery.

“ The service distance day after day is beyond the capacity of horse
haulage, and the simplicity of operation is such that any man of ordinary
intelligence can drive the truck with greater ease than horses for similar
service. These trucks may be equipped with electric hoists when

Glossary of the Edison Storage Battery

BATTERY — A group of any number of cells connected together and used
for one general purpose.

TRAY — A wooden frame having convenient hard rubber insulators, in
which cells are held firmly in position and mutually insulated.

CELL — The unit of a battery, consisting of the positive electrode and
negative electrode assembled in the retaining can with the necessary
internal insulators and the electrolyte.

RETAINING CAN — The nickel-plated receptacle in which the elec¬
trodes and electrolyte are contained.

POSITIVE ELECTRODE — A group of nickel plates — that is, plates
containing the nickel active material — assembled in multiple, and
connecting with the positive pole of the cell.

NEGATIVE ELECTRODE — A group of; iron plates — that is, plates
containing the iron active material — assembled in multiple, and
connecting with the negative pole of the cell.

ELECTROLYTE — The liquid in which the electrodes are immersed,
consisting of a solution of pure potassium hydrate in distilled water.

TUBES — The round, perforated-metal retainers loaded with nickel active
material, which, when secured in a grid, compose a positive plate.

POCKETS — The flat, perforated-metal retainers loaded with iron active
material, which, when secured in a grid, compose a negative plate.

GAS VALVE or SEPARATOR — A mounting on the cell cover, which
performs the function of allowing gas to escape freely, but prevents
the ingress of any gas, liquid, or solid}' from the outside. It also acts
as a separator, freeing the escaping gas of the fine spray of electrolyte
which it would otherwise carry out, and returning this to the main
body of the solution. I

FILLING APERTURE — The opening at the top of a cell, through
which electrolyte is introduced and distilled water is added, This
vent is normally closed by a gas-tight spring, cap.

ins

Description of the
Edison Storage Battery

THIS description will be brief and general. It will
not go into technical details, nor will it attempt
to describe the chemical reactions involved. It is
intended to enable anyone who has use for a storage battery
to understand the construction and the working of our battery.

The new Edison Storage Battery is known as Type A.
It is at present made in two sizes. A cell having four posi¬
tive plates is called A -4; a cell having six positive plates is
called, A-6.

The Edison invention involves the use of an entirely
new voltaic combination in an alkaline electrolyte, in place
of the lead-lead peroxide combination and acid electrolyte
characteristic of all other commercial storage batteries. This
not only secures durability and greater output per given
weight of battery, but eliminates a long list of troubles and
diseases inherent in the lead-acid combination which have
hitherto hindered the full application of the original storage
battery idea.

In the Edison Battery the active materials are oxides

THE EDISON STORAGE BATTERY

of nickel and of iron, respectively in the positive and negative
electrodes, the electrolyte being a solution of caustic potash
in water.

The retaining cans are made of sheet steel. This can
is welded at the seams by the autogenous method, making
leakage or breakage from severe vibration impossible. The
walls of the can are corrugated so as to give the greatest
amount of strength with a minimum weight. The can is
electro-plated with nickel, and a close union of the steel
and nickel is attained by fusing them together sorthat they
are practically one metal. This coating of nickel protects
the steel from rust, and also gives to each cell an attractive
and highly finished appearance.

WE SHALL proceed to describe Cell A-4.. Cell
A-6 is made the same, but contains more plates
and is therefore larger. Each cell of this A-4. type
contains four positive and five negative plates.

Each positive plate consists of a grid of nickel-plated
steel holding thirty tubes filled with the active material, in
two rows of fifteen each.

The tubes are made of very thin sheet steel, perforated
and nickel-plated. Each tube is reinforced and protected
by small ferrules, eight in number. These prevent expan¬
sion thereby retaining perfect internal contact at all times.
The active material in the tubes is interspersed with
16

THE EDISON STORAGE BATTERY

thin layers of pure metallic nickel in the form of leaves or
flakes. The pure nickel flake is manufactured by an elec¬
trochemical process, which is illustrated below.

A negative plate comprises twenty-four flat rectangu¬
lar pockets supported in three horizontal rows in a nickel-
plated steel grid.

The pockets are made of thin nickel-plated steel,
perforated with fine holes, each pocket being filled with an

* .

oxide of iron very similar to what is commonly called iron
rust. In the negative plate each pocket is subjected to very
heavy pressure, so that it becomes practically integral with
the supporting grid.

In a cell the positive and negative plates are assembled
alternately, and connect, the positive plates with the positive
pole, and the negative plates with the negative pole. The
plates of each group are hung on a connecting rod perpen¬
dicular to, but integral with, the pole. They are correctly
distanced on this rod by nickel-plated steel spacing-washers,
and held firmly in contact by nuts screwed on both ends.

If this description has been followed closely it will be
seen that in an assembled cell nickel plates are alternated
with iron plates, and that the two outside plates are both
iron or negative plates. The outer surfaces of the outside
plates are insulated from the retaining can by hard rubber
sheets. Specially-designed hard rubber pieces are fixed
between the can and the side and bottom edges of the plates ;
and these, together with hard rubber rods inserted between
the plates, maintain correct spacing of the plates at all points
and insure permanent insulation.

Each cell has a cover which is welded in place by the
same autogenous process used for the side and bottom seams.

On the cover are four mountings. Two of these are the
stuffing boxes through which the positive and the negative
poles extend.

One of the o^her two is the Separator, so called because
it separates spray from the escaping gas while the

Powerful hydraulic presses at the Edison Storage Battery plant, used for crimping the negative
plates after the pockets have been put in place. This insures perfect contact and
gives the greatest rigidity and stiffness to the plate.

is charging. This prevents Ubss ;of electrolyte and renders
the gases inodorous.

The fourth mounting is an opening for filling the cell
with electrolyte and for the adding of distilled water to
take the place of that which evaporates. This opening
has a water-tight cap which is held in place by a strong

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THE EDISON STORAGE BATTERY

catch. Fastened to this cap is a small spring, so arranged
that the cap will fly open unless properly fastened. This
reduces the possibility of leaving the cap open accidentally,
thereby causing the electrolyte to spill out should the cells
be violently agitated by vibration of the automobile.

The electrolyte consists of a twenty- one per cent
solution of caustic potash in distilled water.

Every part of the Edison cell is manufactured by
specially- designed machinery. All of the parts are strong
and durable. All active material manufactured — both nickel
and iron — is tested before being used in commercial cells,
and frequent tests are also made of the internal contacts in
tubes. The pockets and tubes are so securely fastened in
their respective grids that they cannot possibly loosen, and
the plates, thus formed, are practically integral.

In an assembled battery each individual cell is held
securely in place and from contact with adjacent cells by
means of a small hard rubber button which extends through
the slat on the side of the tray and fits over an emboss
pressed out on the side of the can. This button, by per¬
forming its function of holding each cell firmly in position,
maintains an air-gap between cells, and thereby insulates
them from each other.

The bottoms of the cells are held in position by small
buttons protruding from a conveniently arranged wooden
block fastened to the bottom-slats of the tray. In the
bottom of each cell are four small indentations which fit
24

over these buttons. A rubber apron insulates the cell from the
block. The buttons prevent the cells from becoming displaced
by sudden jolts or shocks, -affording a very rigid support.

Electrical connection between cells is made by means
of heavy copper connectors, well nickel-plated. Each con¬
nector consists of a solid copper wire, on the ends of which
are swedged specially-shaped steel lugs which fit over the

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THE EDISON STORAGE BATTERY

binding posts and make a taper-joint connection with them,
insuring perfect electrical contact. A nut holds each lug
securely in place. This makes bad contact impossible when
the connector is. once properly in place, even though the
battery be subjected to violent jolting, such as is often
received in electric automobiles.

To remove a cell from the battery at any time is a
very simple operation, performed in a few minutes. A socket

wrench for removing the nuts which hold down the connec¬
tors, and a specially-designed jack for lifting the lugs from
the binding posts when disconnecting cells, are sent with
each battery.

IN CONNECTION with the filling of cells with distilled
water we recommend that the special filling apparatus
supplied by us be used. This apparatus consists of a
nickel-plated copper tank, a set of dry cells, a bell, a rubber
tube leading from the tank, and a double wire leading from
the bell and battery to a specially designed filling-nozzle,
equipped with a valve by means of which the water may be

turned on or off at will. To fill a cell the nozzle is placed
in the filling aperture and the valve released — the proper
height of solution being indicated by the ringing of the bell.

Cells are filled with electrolyte and assembled in trays ,
with all connectors and insulators in place before leaving
the factory.

The trays in which cells are assembled — varying in

size to accommodate different numbers of cells — are a rad¬
ical departure from anything heretofore offered in the way
of a battery tray. Where formerly the ends and the bottom
were dovetailed together, the trays are now made of contin¬
uous strips, the corners being bent. Trays constructed in
this manner are not only lighter but very much stronger
than those constructed in the old way.

Characteristic Features of the
Edison Storage Battery

THE Edison Battery has been subjected to a great
variety of tests, and its performance in these has
exceeded the expectations of even its optimistic
inventor.

The Edison Battery requires far less attention and care
than any other battery, and therefore lessens the expense for
labor in a garage.

In a solution of caustic potash and water, only
water need be added to keep the electrolyte in the right
condition.

Anyone who has been present while an acid battery
was being charged will remember the obnoxious fumes of
the sulphuric acid, which penetrated everywhere. These same
fumes act upon the ironwork of a truck or wagon and eat
it away.

Caustic potash solution positively does not affect iron
in any way, but rather prevents its corrosion.

An Edison Battery weighs about half as much as a
lead battery for the same output ; but in addition to this it
saves about fifty per cent of its weight in the construction

THE EDISON STORAGE BATTERY

of the truck itself. That is, a truck built to carry an Edison
sixty-cell battery would save not only five hundred pounds
in battery weight, but about two hundred and fifty pounds
in the weight of the truck over the same truck built to carry
lead cells.

An Edison Battery cannot be injured by overcharging,
does not deteriorate when left discharged, makes possible the
removal of any cell by simply detaching the connections
from the poles, and gives nearly twice the output or mileage
of a lead battery for the same weight. The purity of the

THE EDISON STORAGE BATTERY

Commercial Tests of the
Edison Storage Battery

THE Commercial Vehicle , a trade paper, has given an
important account of the actual working of the
Type A Battery in connection with the delivery
service of a large department store.

R. H. MACY & CO., who own and operate thirty-one electric delivery
wagons and trucks, had a Lansden wagon fitted with one of the new
batteries for three weeks. The new cells are made in two sizes, desig¬
nated A-4 and A-6. The former is of the same capacity as the earlier
type E-27 Edison Battery, rated at one hundred and fifty ampere-hours
discharge. Type A-6 has the same number and size of plates as type
E-27, and is about the same weight, but has nearly double the capacity,
giving two hundred and sixty ampere-hours discharge. It requires a
charge of three hundred ampere-hours, but the users say the loss is much
more than counterbalanced by the work it does and by other points of
practical excellence. The smaller size battery weighs about seven hun¬
dred pounds, and the larger size twelve hundred. Size A-6 is installed
in a demonstration wagon of Lansden make, which has been christened
the Greyhound, for reasons that will become obvious. At the time an
investigation of the performance of this outfit was made by a representa¬
tive of The Commercial Vehicle, up to June 21st, it had been running in
the service of the dry goods store for nearly one month.

“Upon being received it was first given a special test, in which it
was run three consecutive days without recharging, and made a total

THE EDISON STORAGE BATTERY

mileage of ninety-three miles. On the first day it left New York City
at eight o’clock in the morning, crossed the ferry to Jersey City and
covered the Bayonne route, going all the way to Bergen Point, making
approximately one hundred stops for delivery of packages. It returned
to the garage at six p. m. The same route was covered on the second
day, starting at eight a. m., making about the same number of stops,
and getting back at five p. m. On the third day it traversed the regular
Staten Island route for the store, embracing nearly all the towns on the
north end of the Island, which is very hilly, and making about one
hundred stops for deliveries. It left the store for this trip at eight-thirty
a. m., and got back about eight-thirty in the evening. During this
entire period the battery received no “ boost ” and was not recharged.
At the end of the test the voltmeter reading showed sixty volts.

FOLLOWING this initial test, the Greyhound, with battery A-6, was
put on the Coney Island route, which is claimed to be the worst or
longest and hardest covered regularly in one day of any served by any
dry goods house in the city. It is from sixty-three to sixty-seven miles
long and averages one hundred and fifty stops for deliveries, sometimes
running up to nearly three hundred deliveries.

“In covering this route, the Greyhound leaves the store in New
York City at eight o’clock in the morning, crosses the Brooklyn Bridge,
and thence runs out Fourth Avenue to Sixtieth Street, where deliveries
begin. From there it goes to Fort Hamilton, making deliveries along
the way, returns to Dyker Heights, then does part of Borough Park.
From Borough Park it delivers all the way down to Bath Beach, taking
both sides of the main line, thence through Bensonhurst to Ulmer Park
and on down to Coney Island. It covers Surf Avenue, in Coney Island,
all the way down to Sea Gate, at the westerly end. Returning, it goes
to Brighton Beach, then cuts over to Sheepshead Bay and starts on the
homeward trip, coming back through Flatbush, where it finishes its
deliveries, and re-enters Manhattan Island by way of the Williamsburg
Bridge. The wagon usually arrives at the garage about seven p. m.

4°

“If there are an unusual number of deliveries to be made, the
driver is accompanied by a boy to carry packages, but otherwise he is
alone. It is an enormous day’s work to be done week after week, but
the driver likes it because he gets back from his work about three hours
earlier than when horses were used. One reason why it is possible to
make so many deliveries on such a long route in so short a time is because,
unlike the city routes, there are no stairs to climb to upper floors of apart¬
ment and flat buildings. Often the customers see the motor wagon stop
in front of their residences and come out to receive the packages, with¬
out waiting for the doorbell to ring.

“When this route was covered with horses, two teams were used
every day, and hampers of packages were shipped by express to Bath
Beach, about midway of the delivery route, where the wagons called for
the packages and began their deliveries. Very often the wagons could
not start delivering until ten a. m.

THE GREYHOUND is a one-ton wagon of the regular Lansden type.
It weighs 2,460 pounds empty, without battery, and 3,660 pounds with
battery; that is, the type A-6 battery weighs 1,200 pounds. The wagon
averages about eleven miles an hour actual running time.

“ The smaller battery, type A-4, has been in use by the same house
in one of its two-year-old Lansden 1,000 pound wagons since June 1st.
In order to test it out, it was first tried on the Coney Island route, already
described. It covered forty-five miles over heavy, muddy roads, making
one hundred and seventy-five stops for deliveries, before the battery charge
gave out. This showed that it was incapable of serving this route, how¬
ever, so it was put on the Bayonne route, running down to Bergen Point.
It has regularly served this route ever since, covering an average of forty-
three miles a day and making one hundred and twenty-five stops. The
voltage reading of the battery after the day’s work shows that it is capable
of doing fifty miles a day under the same conditions. The wagon leaves
the store about eight a. m. and gets back to the garage at five to five-
thirty p. m. It is not given any boost during the day — in fact the drivers
are not allowed to boost the batteries in any of the cars. This small
battery contains sixty-five cells and weighs about seven hundred pounds.

“Various characteristics of the new battery are commented upon by
the superintendent of the garage and others connected with the manage¬
ment of the store under whose direct observation the work of the
delivery service comes. The most important is the uniformity of dis¬
charge capacity regardless of the age of the battery. This is the chief
characteristic, perhaps, of all Edison batteries, as the dry goods house has
one of the early ones (type E-27) that has been in its service for nearly
five and one-half years, and is today regularly doing thirty-five miles a
day. Practically no other work has been done on it in that period except
to recharge it with potash every eight months, and of course to keep the

Electric vehicles equipped with Edison Storage Batteries are used exclusively by Adams Express
Company in Indianapolis, Ind. Tile above photograph shows part of this equipment.

cells filled with distilled water. This quality, it is pointed out, is of
great value, as it relieves the superintendent of deliveries of the mental
effort of remembering the capabilities of each battery according to the
time it has been in use, so that a battery capable of doing, say, twenty
miles will not be put on a route thirty miles long and get stalled on
the road.

“ During the three weeks that the Macy Department Store had the
Greyhound, it was given severe tests over a number of different routes
into the suburbs. For example, on April 1 6th it went to Coney Island,
making about fifty deliveries, and on the same day, without recharging,
it ran to Woodlawn and hack. Then to completely discharge the
battery it was run about ten miles in nearby deliveries in the neighbor¬
hood of the store. The distance covered during the day was between
eighty-seven and ninety miles. The charging plug had been taken out
at eight a. m., and was not put in again until three-thirty a. m. the
following day

“ On May 5th the wagon was sent to Morristown, N. J. Leaving
the store at about eight a. m., it covered seventy-two miles out and back,
uphill and down, over macadamized roads, making forty-five stops for
deliveries, and returned to the garage by nine-thirty p. m., or two hours
before a team of horses would return to the stable in Newark after
serving the same territory in Morristown.

“ On another occasion the Staten Island route was served, including
Tottenville, at the extreme southerly end of the island. Owing to the
hilly nature of the roads there, it is asserted by the manager of the garage

THE EDISON STORAGE BATTERY

that fifty miles on the island is equivalent to eighty or ninety miles over
level, smooth roads. Yet the wagon covered the route, making sixty
stops for deliveries, and returned, running strong, in about five hours less
time than the same deliveries could have been made with two or three
teams of horses.

“DURING the three weeks that Macy’s had the wagon fitted with the
new A-6 battery, the machine was regularly put on the longest routes,
serving suburban territory that usually is handled by horses and wagons
or by express. Besides the Tottenville route, which is fifty-six miles
long, there was covered the trip to Richmond, also on Staten Island,
forty-eight and one-half miles, Scarsdale in Westchester County, north
of the city, a round trip of forty-three and two-tenth miles; Coney Island

Electric vehicles equipped with Edison Storage Batteries owned and operated by
James A. Hearn & Son of New York City.

“The wagon was regularly worked fourteen, fifteen and eighteen
hours a day, according to the chief engineer and garage superintendent of
Macy’s, and averaged from fifty-six to fifty-seven miles a day on one
charge without ever having a boost, and regularly returned still good for
ten or eleven miles more. It was regularly recharged at night for six to
seven hours at a forty ampere-hour rate.

“The battery experts state, without reservation, that the battery is
easily capable of serving the longest and hardest delivery route operated
out of New York City and of surpassing the, physical endurance of the
driver; that is, no driver, even with the aid of a boy, could drive the
machine day in and day out over a longer route and make more deliv¬
eries than the Greyhound is capable of doing.

“There can be no question that those who have had supervision of
the work of the battery are enthusiastic regarding it. They admit that
the first cost is high, comparatively, but as an offset to this, point out the
low cost of maintenance over a term of years; and in continuous service
of any sort the original investment in necessary apparatus is only one
item in the expense account.” .

Advantages of
Motor over Horse Vehicles

ECONOMY

(a) OF MONEY

1 Cheap upkeep.

2 Consumes nothing while idle.

3 Requires less stable room, permitting smaller housing.

4 Requires fewer men to care for, or groom.

5 Requires no attention on days of rest, or when idle.

6 Longer life.

7 In light small package delivery it does work of two or more wagons,

reducing force of men to deliver same, because it carries more
load and goes twice faster than a horse.

(b) OF TIME

1 Delivers in much quicker time than horse.

2 Return trip to distributing centre at high speed.

3 Can work unlimited proportion of day.

4 Requires no days of rest.

5 Easily handled in congested traffic, at- good speeds.

6 As garages are permitted where stables would not be, it permits

more convenient and nearer stabling, nearer to distributing centre.

7 Always ready.

8 Develops power despite weather and road conditions.

9 Can be worked overtime for holiday trade.

( c ) OF SPACE

1 In stable.

2 In street.

3 In loading space at warehouse, permitting more wagons to load at

same time.

THE EDISON STORAGE BATTERY

OTHER ADVANTAGES

(a) INTENSIVE

1 Fewer wagons, on account of higher speed, will do work.

2 Fewer men will take care of same delivery unit.

3 Consumes only when in actual service.

(b) EXTENSIVE.

1 Permits larger radius of delivery, meaning possible extension of free

delivery limits, yet at low cost.

2 Is in itself a good advertisement.

III

AND SOME GOOD REASONS

1 Motor transportation would go far to solve traction and congestion

of traffic problems for everybody.

2 Less damage to roads.

3 Dirt, dust and manure would disappear.

4 Permits the accurate and easy determination of costs.

5 It is a sign that the owner is progressive.

6 Unsoiled livery.

Advantages of

Electric over Gasoline Vehicles

ECONOMY

(a) OF MONEY

1 Greater simplicity, hence fewer repairs.

2 Lower cost of insurance.

3 More durable than reciprocal type.

4 Less care.

5 No elaborate repair tools.

6 Small loss of power.

7 No experienced chauffeur, who must get higher wages; and small

number available.

8 Freedom from insurance limitations.

(i) OF TIME

1 Simplicity of adjustment.

2 No cranking.

3 Instant readiness.

4 Develop power despite conditions of weather, etc.

5 Less time in repair shop.

OTHER ADVANTAGES

1 Simplicity of construction.

2 Simplicity of operation.

3 Danger of fire or explosion eliminated. Hence wider field.

4 Universality of electric power.

5 No freezing.

6 No tanks to leak.

7 Favorable legislation in Germany.

8 Electric permitted on docks and terminals where no gasoline.

9 Legislation in Germany and London adverse to gasoline. Same here.

THE EDISON STORAGE BATTERY

III

SENTIMENTAL REASONS

1 No noise.

2 No odor.

3 Advertising feature.

4 Does not spot liveries with grease, or make goods odoriforous.

THE EDISON STORAGE BATTERY

PRICE LIST OF CELLS AND PARTS

Price of cell complete .

Electric filling apparatus, complete .

Filling tank only .

Filler, complete with batteries and bell .

“ with hose and wire only .

“ hose, per length .

Recanning .

Connectors (regular) .

“ (special) .

Jumpers, 6 inch .

“ i z “ .

“ 1 5 “ .

“ 48 “ .

Block Insulators .

Button Insulators .

Lid Gaskets .

Pole Nuts .

Separator Valves .

Terminal Lugs .

Separator Top Caps .

Socket Wrench .

Disconnecting Jack .

Potash solution, per pound .

Trays . 2 cell

3 “

4 “

5 “

6 . “

7 “

8 “

9 •<

Type A-4
$13-5°

Type A-6
$20.00

6.00

4.00

3.00

2.25

•25

.25

•z5

•3°

•35

.40

.14

.02

.02%

.10

■05

.50
1. 00
.08
i-55
i-55
i-55
1.65

1- 75
2.05
2.15
2.25

2- 35

The .19 10, Edison Storage Battery

■ Walter E. Holland

• anti

A Test of the Edison Storage Battery

Conducted and repotted by. the
Electrical Testing Laboratories

FILES

the 1910 EDISON
STORAGE BATTERY

WALTER E. HOLLAND

“ADAT the twenty-sixth annual meeting OF THE
ASSOCIATE OF EDISON ILLUMINATING COMPANIES
HELD AT FRONTENAC, THOUSAND ISLANDS
N. Y„ SEPTEMBER 6, 7, AND 8, 1910

Copyrighted 1910 by the Association
of Edison Illuminating Companies

York

exceedingly hig

TEST OF THE EDISON
STORAGE BATTERY

MADE FOR THE ASSOCIATION OF EDISON ILLUMINATING
COMPANIES UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE
LAMP COMMITTEE

TS CONDUCTED AND REPORTED
ELECTRICAL TESTING LABORATORIE
NEW YORK CITY

TO BE PRESENTED AT THE TWENTY-SIXTH ANNUAL
CONVENTION OF THE ASSOCIATION OF EDISON
ILLUMINATING COMPANIES, HOTEL
FRONTENAC, THOUSAND ISLANDS
SEPTEMBER 6, 7 AND 8, 1910

Electrical Testing Laboratories
New York City

REPORT NO. 8286

Test of Edison Storage Battery Made For
Association of Edison Illuminating Compani
Under Direction of the Lamp Committee

ORDER NO. 5871.

INDEX

General statement . ; .

Description, general . . .

Description, data .

Outline of Tests made .

Methods .

Observed data . *’*

Effect of rate and time of charge .

Capacity at various discharge rates . . ,
Maximum power and energy available

Drop in voltage during discharge .

Effect of room temperature .

Loss of capacity while standing .

Capacity on a variable discharge .

Summary of Results, tabulated . .

Curves and Tabulated Observed Data at End of Report.

CAPACITY AT VARIOUS RATES OF DISCHARGE.

The results' of tests to show the capacity at various rates of
large throughout what tiie manufacturers considered a sufficicnt-
lide range are given in curve sheet 0. . It shows tile ampere

ual to 300 per cent, normal, also ampere hour and watt hour
cncies, average volts, etc.

(a) Maximum ampere hour capacity and ampere hour
efficiency are obtained at about the normal rate of discharge,
namely, 15 amperes. These values arc, on a normal charge,
202 ampere hours and 80 per cent, respectively.

(b) The ampere hour capacity and efficiency does not
change a great deal with the rate. The maximum capacity of
*02 ampere hours is at -15 amperes discharge, the. minimum of
2-ttl is at 135 amperes discharge while about 259 or 200 ampere
hours is obtained at, 22.5 amperes discharge. The ampere hour
efficiency ranges from about 85 per cent, at half rate discharge
to 80 per cent, at normal rate and about .79 per cent, at three
times normal rate,.

(c) The watt hour efficiency ranges from about 01 per
cent, at half rate to 00 per cent, at normal rate, 00.5 per cent, at
double rate and 00 per cent, at three times normal rate. Curve
sheet 10 shows' the watt hour capacity on, a cell basis and a
battery basis and curve sheet 10a gives tiie same data on a
‘pound of cell” basis. At normal; rate of discharge, following
t normal charge, tile capacity ' is 10.0 watt hours per pound
corresponding to a rate of 2.8 watts per , pound. Tile capacity
ranges from 10.7 watt hours per pound at half normal rate to 1014
it normal, about 10 at 150 per cent, normal, about 15.3 at double
iiormal and 13..I watt hours pur pound at .three times normal;

MAXIMUM POWER AND ENERGY AVAILABLE.

charge is about 225 watts per cell or 11.0 watts per pound. At
maximum rate about 150 watt hours per cell or 7.5 watt hours
pound of cell arc. obtained which is about -10 per cent, of the watt
capacity at normal rate of discharge.

DROP IN VOLTAGE DURING DISCHARGE.

Tile total drop in voltage from the beginning of discharg
practically the ultimate capacity is, when discharged at normal
about 30 per cent. This figure holds for rates up to twice normal
Beyond that, a little more capacity can be obtained if discharf
carried to 35 per cent, drop in voltage. Ten (10) per cent, of this
occurs within the first 20 minutes at 2/3 normal rate of discll
or over. If discharge is stopped just at the turn at the end of
voltage curve, the total drop is about 22 to 2-1 per cent. About f
85 per cent. 'of tile discharge— the middle portion— takes place wi
drop in voltage cental to about 10 per cent, of the initial value.

EFFECT OF ROOM TEMPERATURE ON CAPACITY

The effect of temperature on the capacity of the battery is sh
on curve sheet 15. The effect of low temperature is to reduce
capacity whether only discharge, or both charge and discharge,
place at the low temperature. I-Iigli temperature increases
capacity, but more when discharge only takes place' at the high I
perature than when both charge and discharge arc made at
high temperature. Numerically, the data obtained shows the foil

When

charged and discharged at -10° falir. room temperature,
loss is about 0 per cent, or about 0.15 per cent, per del
below normal (83° falir.). The same result is indicated w
charge takes place at tile normal temperature and disclu
at 40° falir. showing that the loss takes place in the

i should be considered us approximate only.

CAPACITY DUE TO STANDING AFTER BEING
CHARGED.

► shows the effect on the capacity when a battery is
cd immediately after being charged. This loss, in per
normal capacity obtained when discharged immediately,

in end of charge and
g of discharge.

CAPACITY ON VARYING DISCHARGE

Curve sheet 14 gives tile log of a test at different
discharge, the rates varying from half normal to thr
It will be noted that an increase in ampere hour c
tabled of nearly fl per cent, over that at a constant i

crease in capacity is doubtless due to the increase!:
which discharge after the high rates took place.

SUMMARY OF RESULTS.

Primary Printed Series
National Phonograph Company

"Edison Phonographs, Phonograph Outfits, Phonograph Supplies." Form
49. 1899.

"Parts of Phonographs." Form 270. 1901.

"Phonograph Accessories." Form 337. 1902.

"Edison Phonographs." Form 335. 1902. [With attached "Important
Supplement," 1902.]

"Jobbers Discount Sheet." Form 355J. 1902.

"Dealers Discount Sheet." From 387D. 1902.

"Directions for Setting Up and Operating the Edison Home Phonograph."
Form 476. Ca. 1903. [Not selected: similar directions for the Gem,
Standard, and Triumph models.]

"Just Airs: Souvenir of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition." Form 550. Ca.
1904.

"Edison Phonographs." Form 740. 1905.

"Edison Coin-Slot Phonographs." Form 910. 1906.

"How to Install the Edison Commercial System Conducted with the Business
Phonograph." Ca. 1907. [From Scrapbook, Cat. 44,494.]

"Edison Phonographs, Records, Parts, and Accessories: Jobbers
Discounts." Form 1286. 1908.

"Edison Phonographs, Records, Parts, and Accessories: Dealers'
Discounts." Form 1286. 1908.

"Edison Amberol Records: What They Are and How to Play Them on Your
Phonograph." Form 1415. Ca. 1908.

"Information Concerning and Directions for Putting the Combination

Attachment on the Edison Home Phonograph." Form 468A. 1909. [Not
selected: similar directions for the Gem, Standard, and Triumph
models.]

"How to Make Records at Home with an Edison Phonograph." Form 1090.
Ca. 1910.

"The Edison Phonograph: A Catalogue of Edison Phonographs, Records,
Reproducers, Attachments and Accessories." Form 1780. 1910.

"'My South Polar Expedition' Vividly Told by Lieut. E. H. Shackleton on an
Edison Amberol Record." Form 1801. 1910.

"Jobbers' and Dealers' Discounts and Net Prices on Edison Phonographs,
Records, Accessories and Parts." 1910.

"Parts of Edison Phonographs, Reproducers, and Attachments." 1910.

Edison Phonographs »
Phonograph Outfits * *
Phonograph Supplies *

Rational Phonograph Co.

Factory, Edison laboratory, Orange, n. 3.

Ollicc and Salesroom, St. James Bunding
Broadway and CwcntyStxth St. new Vorh

The Edison Phonograph

and what it does

The Edison Phon- A1! ot these are called Phonographs,

ograph is made in ^

two types and five They will record and reproduce human

Styles . speech and other forms of articulate

sound. They will record music and
reproduce it afterwards. They will repeat what has been sung,
spoken, or played by others to the machine, such as music, songs,
etc. They will shave off or prepare cylinders that have once
had speeches, songs, etc., recorded on them, so that every cylinder
can he used again and again for new records, if desired.

It is the best of all such instruments,
Hence the Phon- because it does these things simply
ograph is a musi- a,ld perfectly. It will sing for you,

cal instrument, a wi“ play for y01'' f win, rep,eat l°

’ you, the music of famous bands and
talking machine, orchestras, the sweet voices of famous
a singing machine si“g°rs. a»d the precious voices of
all in one . . . [a,,,w even though they

i perished, j

How Phono- public

Qfdphs are sold Records made oil one machine will fit
any other. There can be no confusion,
therefore, in ordering. Phonograph Outfits’ are also furnished
with accessories ; such as Amplifying Horns, Musical Records,
Cases, Multiple Hearing Tubes, and other supplies required by the
Phonograph Exhibitor, particulars of which are included in this
price list. Any of these items can be furnished separately, if

Description of The ‘w0 of Ed‘so" phon°f“ph

, . are the Electric and Spring Motor,

the dltterent The five styles are Class M. and Class

types and classes E. Electric ; and Class S. M., Class H.

. and Class S. of the Spring Motor type.
Flprtrir The Edison Electric Phonograph, Class M.,
Liecinc (Motor) Machine, is actuated by an electric motor,

Class M. which forms part of the machine. The Class M. ,

Phonograph is the perfected type of Mr. Edison’s electrical ma¬
chine. It requires a battery to supply the power for running it.
The battery is not a part of the machine, but must be purchased as
an extra. The machine is perfect in all details, and accurate and
brilliant in reproduction. Price, $75.

Class E The Edison Electric Phonograph, Class E., (electric
light current), is furnished with an electric motor
wound for the 1 10 to 1 20 volt direct current. The outfit is similar
to Class M. in every respect except the motor, Price, $90.

5 • u.f.. The Edison Spring Motor Phonograph,

spring Motor. class s M _ is a high ^ instrument. .

Class S. M. The motive power of this machine is a

powerful spring-motor movement contained in the machine itself,
and wound with a crank. The top, or Phonographic part, is the
same as the Class M. Electric Machine first described. No bat¬
tery or electricity is used. Price, $75.

Class H The ®^‘son H°tne Phonograph is also a spring-motor
machine, made for popular home use, and requires no
battery or electrical energy. The price is less than one-half that of
the other types, and it works admirably, having the same speaking
and musical qualities, .and using the same devices to accomplish
those results. • The spring-motor which forms a part of this
Phonograph is well made, and differs from the larger motor only
in not running so long with a single winding. The reproduction or
"playing," however, is just as loud and clear, Price, $30.

Class S Edison Standard Phonograph is a standard ma¬

chine in every respect. It is built on the same
general lines as the Home Phonograph, with the exception of a
different arrangement of the feed, and motor runs from two to
three records with one winding instead of six. It is durable,
handsome and attractive in appearance. The same Speaker is
used on it as is used on the higher priced machines, the result is
consequently identical. Price, $20.

Edison Standard Phonograph.

* is made with the same careful precision that characterizes
all Edison Phonographs, and is complete in every respect. The
Standard i.i the Ideal Talking Machine.

Made of iron, steel and brass, nickeled gears and mandrel.
Black enamel and gold finish.

Encased in a handsome oak, dust-proof carrying case.

. Actuated by a spring motor that runs two to three records
with a single winding. Crank handle does not revolve while the
machine is running. Can be wound while in motion without
interfering with reproduction.

Light, durable aud efficient. Absolutely noiseless. Regula¬
tion perfect. Can be operated by a child, so simple is its mechan¬
ism. Weighs. 17 lbs. Size 9 in. x 12 in. x 9# inches high.

Will record, will reproduce, will shave off. Fitted, yith in¬
stantaneous speaker clamps for instant interchange of .speakers.
Full printed directions packed with each machine.

shaving knife, a two-wn^ heart ng^tube. a 14-iticlipoliahedbrass horn, a camel's hair chip
Vhese ports’nre essentfnl to a perfectly equipped and complete talking machine outfit.

n Phonographs

Cheapest Because

Edison Standard Phonograph Outfit, No. 48.

The Edison
Standard Speaker’s

screw. Use the Automatic for re ' ^

The Edison Recorder,

especially adapted for recording pi
It is not constructed so rigidly as t
Speaker, and consequently adjusts
matically, making an even and u:
on the surface of the blank. It
with a recording sapphire only, o:
quality and most delicate adjust
adept at record making will find ir

about Speakers

Edison Home Phonograph Outfit, No. 39.

Price, Complete, $39.00.

Edison Home Phonograph Outfit, No. 58.

CLASS H.

Price, Complete, $58.00.

Edison Special Home and Travelling Outfit,
No. 85.

CLASS H.

Edison Spring Motor Phonograph.

Price, $75.00.

A CTUATED by powerful triple springs, which drive the machine through
IX fourteen records with n single winding.

No electricity or battery required.

Winds noiselessly, runs noiselessly, governs perfectly.

Simple but effective construction, and in every respect a standard ma¬
chine. Removable hardened steel bearings, belt-tightener, and other useful
devices.

Includes oak body box and carrying cover as shown. Finished in black
and gilt enamel, with nickel parts, and fitted with instantaneous spenker
clamps for instant interchange of speakers.

Weighs 43 pounds complete, and is particularly recommended for poit-
able service. Size 16# inches long, io# wide and 14 high. Full printed
directions packed with each machine. 'v

Edison Electric Phonograph.

Price, $75.00.

-THE unrivaled Model of all talking machines in the world.

1 Latest type of the Electric Phonograph, equipped with elec¬
tric battery motor and governor, and fitted with instantaneous
speaker clamps, for instant interchange of speakers. ■ The above
cut shows the complete instrument. It sets in an oak body box.
Weighs 65 pounds. . Finished in black, gold and nickel. Size,
20 inches long, 9# wide and it inches high.

A Battery is not a part of the Phonograph , but is an independ¬
ent apparatus. Storage or primary (chemical) battery may be
used. See page 21.

The motor requires a steady current of 2% volts and 2
amperes.

Edison Electric Phonograph.

CLASS E.

TN general appearance and equipment this Phonograph is exactly the same
I as Class M, described on page 10 Jhut is furnished with an electric motor

" The most convenient style of Phonograph made. The power is both
continuous and handy, ns connecting wires need only to he attached to the
nearest electric light connection.

Equipped with resistance block fitted with lamps, attaching plug and cord.

Price, $90.00.

Edison Electric Phonograph Outfit No. 110M.

Edison Special Outfit No. 157.

tery needed ; or Slornge Battery if pre-

Price, Complete, $157.00.

-I

180 Peg Record Cabinet.

This is a beautiful piece
of furnitnre, finely finish¬
ed in every respect. High
polish quartered oak,
handsome brass handles
and accurately put to¬
gether. Eight drawers
hold each 18 records, and
the three smaller ones 12

capacity of 15 dozen. The

Edison Exhibition
Phonograph Battery.

A COMPLETE MANUAL OF THE
EDISON PHONOGRAPH.

(BUDDY IDDUSTRATED.)

'"pWENTY-TWQ Original illustrations in outline, showing
Electrical Connections, the separate Parts of the Machine,
the Spring Motor, the Electric Motor, the Governor, the
Body, etc., the various operations of Shaving, Recording
and Reproducing, with Diagrams of the several Speakers.
Every part indexed, numbered, and named correctly.

Pr.AiN Instructions, up to date, as to the Details of Operation,
and the Care and Use of the Instrument, with Explanatory
Cuts. Directions so expressed as to be easily understood.

Chaptkks on High-speed Shaving, the Use and Repair of
Speakers, Selections of Glasses, Care of Sapphires, Choice
of Horns, How to Make Records, and other valuable matter
never before printed.

Other Chapters devoted to Batteries, primary and secondary,
their Use and Abuse, Dictating and Transcribing, Slot
Phonographs and Parlors, Spring Motors, etc. , the whole
forming a Complete Practical Guide, embodying the Knowl¬
edge accpiircd in nine years’ daily experience.

This book should be in the hands of every User and Admirer of
the Phonograph. It will save many times its cost by im¬
proving the Efficiency of his Machine. It omits nothing
Essential, and gives, besides, much Special Information ;
and it is the only Complete Work of the kind ever attempted.

PRICE, $1.50.

Edison Phonographs *
Pbonograpb Outfits *■ ■*■
Phonograph Supplies %

llational Pbonograpb Co* jft

Factory, Edison Eaboratory, Orange, n. 3.

Office and Salesroom, St, 3ame» Building

Broadway and Cwentv»SI«lh St. new Vorlt

ALWAYS STATE

WHAT KIND OF A

PHONOGRAPH

YOU HAVE

AND ALSO ITS NUMBER

WHEN YOU ARE
ORDERING SUPPLIES

Phonograph

Accessories

HAMMERED BRASS HORNS
WITH SPUN BELLS

If you clo not find the information you
require in this Catalogue, write for the
following: — .

Catalogue No. 335. Contains complete information
about Edison Phonographs, Spring .Motor
and Electric Types, Standard and Concert
Styles.

Catalogue No. 336* Coin Slot Phonographs.

Catalogue No. 250. Complete list of Edison
Records.

Catalogue No. 270. Price list of Phonographs,
Repair and Supply Parts..

TO AVOID ERRORS

Order by Catalogue number and letter A.
In telegraphing, use Code Word.

JAPANNED TIN HORNS..

Catalosue ^o. . Code word

exhibition purposes,
mid In collapsible.

it lins « bell 22 inches In diameter, . .

The three sections nest Into a space 22x22x20 Inches. *

SPECIAL TIN RECORDING HORN

I'ricc $3.00 Cnt. No. A 13103 Code Word Sceptre

HORN STAND

Catalogue No. A 13201 — Code Word JInlladay

RECORD BOXES

CONCERT. RECORD CARRYING
CASES

RECORD. CABINETS

NEW STYLE CABINETS

The PHONOGRAPH

and how to use it

plug will be furnished of any base required to fit
customer's lamp socket.

Edison Records

Laboratory : will . J be supplied^ on' request/ ^Tlicsc
cylinders hrc{ already prepared ' ivith' rccords ’of
the* pidyfeg. of famous/ baiids^oreli^tras fail'd

are ready • to be put on the machine for immediate

• is, made, by Mr. Edison, and the .Edison Blank
„ is j chemically . pure. ; , It '.h’as^ W su^ssful rival
ini , the , j market There’*, is’tip . polking , ^machine
company , or ..infringer who does no^rccognizc

little, if any, cheaper. The r following-, from a
recent pubjication. on the subject covers the ,
ground truthfully : " While tiic^ingrediimls* Aittt

DESCRIPTION OF
REPRODUCER

THE EDISON PHONOGRAPH

For Dancing

[- _ ^ ^ D you ever dance to the Phonograph ?

I \ [no? Then you have no Idea what
i I 1 I porlect time It keepa, how emoothly .

|| 1 y \ It ewlnpe you over the Poor, fairly

its clear, vibrant tones. And oli, the fun of having a

prettiest girl in the room tied to the piano stool, or
prevents your hostess from sharing your pleasure.

Perhaps you have no piano. Perhaps the cost

fees that put it out of'the question. The first install-

graph that ever pluyed, with dozens! of Records, and

strcls, carry you back to the Wagnerian opera, play

No other Instrument will do this with charm
and sweetness, for these qualities distinguish j the •

Edison Phonograph from its imitations. Sec that

and don’t forget that every month there are twenty-
five New Records, to take the place of the ones you

The Ideal Home
Entertainer

THE Edison Phonograph solves the enter-

'riumph Phonograph

] II ' II Edison Gold Moulded
! Records

Edison Eclipse
Coin-Slot Phonograph

Direct Current

Edison Bijou .
Coin-Slot Phonograph
Spring Motor

Price $ 30.00 Code Bijou

Catalogue No. A 9000

CIZE: — Height, i6}4 inches; Base, 13^x10
0 inches. Weight:— Net, 17 lbs.; Gross, 66 lbs.
Packed in two cases. *

TpQUIPMENT: — Fourteen-inch japanned horn;

Model B Reproducer; coin slot for one cent;
winding crank; cabinet of polished antique oak.
with cover having a curved glass panel, hinged, and
provided with a catch to hold it open.
QPTION: — Coin, slot for any other coin than

Edison Excelsior
Coin-Slot Phonograph
Spring Motor

Price $ 50.00 Code Excelsior

Catalogue No. A 3500

Packed in two cases.

'p'QUIPMENT: — Fourteen-inch horn, Model D
■*“' Reproducer; coin slot for one cent; winding
crank ; cabinet of antique oak, with a highly, polished
finish ; cover having a curved glass panel, hinged so
that the mechanism may be easily examined. An
automatic catch holds the cover open.
QP.TION:— 1 Coin slot for any other coin than

How to Install

The Edison Commercial
System Conducted
With the Business
. Phonograph

Publl.hcJ l,y the Manufacturers i

National Phonograph Co., Commercial Department.
Main Office : Orange, N. J„ 0. S. A.

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FOREWORD:

Quite as much responsibility rests with the person installing the
Edison Commercial System, as with the salesman who secures the
order, for it is the Edison plan to both honestly represent the goods,
and have them operate successfully afterwards.

The Need of Thoroughness in Mechanical Wort.

Business men if bothered with calls for mechanical assistance will
not appreciate the general success of the Phonograph, but pass an
unfavorable judgment on the whole system because of small troubles.
If the representative who installs the system studies the Phonograph
and understands the correct operation of each part, and then is
thorough in his mechanical work, there should be no trouble or com¬
plaint from the customer. It is the object of this pamphlet to de¬
scribe the work of installing the Edison Commercial System, but much
will depend upon the representative’s interest and ability to obtain the
best results from the instruction.

Regarding Packing and Carrier’s Charges.

The packages should bo carefully opened with a nail puller, and
boxes and packing placed safely aside for returning the outfits if
necessary. Read page 4 of the Catalogue in regard to the details
of pack'ng. Pay the closest attention to the manner of preventing
breakage in the original package, so that the excuse of inexperience
in packing need not be made when goods are returned.

Shipments to customers will generally be by express, except to
distant points, and in every ca3e carrier’s charges will be prepaid.

Representatives are requested to be both responsible for careful
repacking when goods are returned and for having the customer prepay
return carrier charges, which is according to understanding.

Report breakage and damage promptly to the appointed Branch
Office.

How to Identify the Parts of Outfits.

It is important to know the articles in an outfit so that they may
be checked with invoice and installed in their correct places. Refer
to page 5 of the Catalogue, “ Prom Brain to Type,” and note that out¬
fits are divided into two classes, viz.: dictating and transcribing. The
general difference lies in th9 desk bracket and speaking/tube for
dictating, and a pedestal and hearing tube for transcribing.

The instrument has a slightly different arrangement for each
purpose. Referring to page 28 of the Catalogue, Figure 33, the speed
adjustment screw, T, extending through the top plate of the Phono¬
graph, will be noticed to be a part of the transcriber’s equipment; this
top adjusting screw is not furnished to the dictator.

. Also, the dictating machine may be identified by a collar placed on
the back rod, which prevents the dictator from starting the record too
far to the left and off the wax cylinder. The transcribing machine

flow JO~pS

Ha°“ on^he'left'o/the record'"^ ^ to 3tarfc 33 far .

is (DOt ^ tr^,at0rS)

When a single instrument is ordered for enmhWw™, _

transcribing, a transcril
connection is furnished.

TheyAare'enSumeratedS ‘1° ,COrreo‘ly in3ta11 the appliances.

' ?oUrtmh6m l0CallyaC°mp,(!t'a a0*'6"^' be ^suppHe^express prepaid

1 No. 62 Goodell Hand Drill.
3 A Twist Drills.

1 5 inch Side Cutting Plyers.
I No. 0 Riveting Hammer.

1 6 inch 2nd Cut Flat File and
Handle.

1 2-Foot Rule.

1 3i inch Scratch Awl.

1 6 inch Champion Screw

1 5i inch Champion Screw
Driver (slim).

1 3 inch Clock Champion
Screw Driver.

1 4 inch Stanley Level.

1 5 inch Tweezers.

1 Roll $ inch Insulating Tape.
1 Yard Cheese Cloth.

1 Piece of 00 Sandpaper.

*1 Edison Outfit Tool Kit, con¬
taining Brush, Oil, Oil Can,
Wrench and Screw Driver.
*1 Wrench to set Shaving
Machine Knife.

Representatives should have access to saw, carpenter's hammer
nail puller, and small alcohol lamp for soldering electrical connections.’

Electric Wiring.

the Itil a” ;mP°rfcant detail in the soliciting of customers to inspect
delay.1 outlets, before promising to install the system without

ativestn nvemlfi P!i0nf>^rapti Co. expressly instruct their represent¬
ed 4 lie ed a.ny ?l0ct™ w™g beyond eight feet from the Phono-
the outfits?* ' e'ght ^ ree“ “r attaohment oords aro furnished with
, 0‘ty ordinances and Board of Fire Underwriters in every

. ^ety strict in enforcing their rules. Experienced wire-
tiuT^footcomfectkm to0ouraphonograph.^ eral)*oyed wlre beyond

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TO REPEAT:— WHEN ELECTRIC WIRING IS NECESSARY BEYOND EIGHT
FEET FROM THE INSTRUMENT, CUSTOMERS SHOULD BE OBLIGED TO EMPLOY
AND BEAR THE EXPENSE OF PROFESSIONAL WIREMEN. FAILURE TO OBSERVE ,
THIS RULE MAY RESULT IN SEVERE LOSS FOR ALL CONCERNED.

Customers should not be inconvenienced by losing the light of
their incandescent lamp when making a connection in a lamp socket.
The manufacturers supply a “multiple tap plug" with the attachment
cord, by which means the lamp may be connected in the same socket
with the cord.

Either of the two ends of the attachment cord for direct current
may be placed in the resistance B, or in the Phonograph at A (Figure 5
of the Catalogue). When the connection socket is below, simply
reverse the position of the cord shown in the illustration.

Too much stress cannot be placed upon obtaining full information
concerning the electrical conditions in a customer's office before order¬
ing or attempting to install the instruments. An error in connecting
the wrong instrument to the circuit will probably cost the loss of a machine.
Ask, First, Is the current alternating or direct? Second, What is the
voltage ? Third, If alternating, what is the frequency? (Generally
given at 60 cycles.)

Don’t accept a statement until you have checked the information
by referring to the engineer of the local plant of the lighting company.
Tell the informants the importance of knowing exactly.

Attaching the Desk Bracket for Dictators.

Referring to the Catalogue, page 18, Figures 20 and 21, directions
are there given for attaching the bracket to the left or right side of
the desk.

An important detail not mentioned in the Catalogue is to have the
machine level. Pieces of wood or paper may be placed under the cabi¬
net to accomplish this, and the top of the machine leveled up with the
level carried in the tool kit.

Occasionally a particular person may object to the bracket being
screwed to a valuable desk. In such cases insert the screws on one
side of the hinge brackets only, leaving the face of the desk without

The Pedestal for Transcribers.

Referring to the Catalogue, page 19, Figure 22, the pedestal is
shown in correct position, and instructions are given for installing it.

It is important to have the machine level on the pedestal, as in the
case of the bracket. To change the level, insert strips between the
cabinet and the top of the pedestal casting.

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Thus the machine may be moved to the dictator’s desk, where a simi
lar arrangement of bracket, board and foot trip is provided. How
ever, this arrangement is not desirable in most cases, and should not hi
recommended unless the customer understands the extra trouble am
expense.

The Metallic Flexible Foot Trip.

Referring to the Catalogue, page 10, there is little to add ii
installing this. trip.

Like the pedestal the trip should not be free to move, but the
pedal casting should be screwed firmly in the best position for the user
The flexible tube is furnished four and one-half feet (4i feet) Ionj

for the greatest requirements. If when the installation is made the
tube could be shortened to look neater and be more mechanical, thi
upper ond may be easily cut off with a file.

Do not have short or unnecessary turns in the tube to cause fric
tion and possible stretching of the chain inside. Form the tube ii
t the desk solidly on the tube if necessary t<

fix it in a permanent position.

If the chain in the tube works hard, it is probably dirty or twisted.
In such a case remove the chain and straighten it, and lubricate it with
Albany grease' to have it run easily and smooth.

Note that each Phonograph is fitted with the correct foot trip

lever, B, Figure 9; the lever will be found tied to the instrument when
unpacked. Do not use a lever not fitted to the machine. The fitting
is necessary to give the lever the full motion through the hole in each

Inspecting the Cylinders.

Twelve cylinders arc furnished with each - outfit, but before use
they should be inspected for a perfect surface, and preferably shaved
on the shaving machine furnished with the instrument to be sure they
are true.

Gummed labels with printed numbers froni 1 to 100 are found
with the cylinders, and these should be placed on the cylinder lo\c
from 1 upwards before the System is used.

The importance of perfect wax cylinders is further discussed
under the subject of “The Shaving Machine."

The Care of the Dire

Curri

right center in the swing gate. Learn to test the adjustment of the
mandrel shaft by pressing on the foot-trip or the start button to take
off the friction P, Figure 2. This friction acts to quickly stop the revo¬
lution of the wax cylinder after speaking. A slight pressure only is
necessary to throw off the friction and not throw, in the power.

With the friction removed the mandrel may be given a spin to see
that all centers are adjusted and oiled. Inspectors should make this
test, and see that a slight turn produces 8 or 10 free revolutions with no
sign qf friction.

The Shaving Machine. '

A sectional illustration of the shaving machine is shown in the
pamphlet “Asked and Answered,” and described on pages 26 and 27
of the Catalogue.

Oiling is an important action to give the best results on this high
speed machine. The cups on the electric motor (if driven electrically)
and the cup on the fan inside the cabinet should be frequently filled

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cause this looseness. After each dozen Bhavings try the mandrel for
end-play, and set up the right center if the shaft appears loose.

Good shaving makes clear records possible, while bad shaving,
makes good records almost impossible. The person operating this ma¬
chine, especially a boy, should receive the most strict and impressive
orders to pay attention to securing the best results. A WRITER cannot

DICTATOR CANNOT SUCCESSFULLY MAKE ACCURATE RECORDS ON A ROUGH
CYLINDER.

Try to make it the rule in every office to do the shaving once a
day, and do it carefully. A generous supply of cylinders will make this
possible and be a good investment. After each day’s shaving, clean the
machine completely, and cover it up until the next day. A dirty feed
screw or wax on the straight edge at the front of the machine where
the arm rests will make an uneven rough surface on the cylinder. The
wax drawer on the bottom, if not emptied frequently, will stop the oper¬
ation of the fan, and cause the chips to fly about instead of falling down
the chip chute in back.

The Shaving Knife.

To produce a smooth shaved cylinder, the machine being otherwise
in order, the knife must have a good edge and be set at the correct
cutting angle. Figures 3, 4, and 5 show the arm holding knife, the knife
setting, and the wrench for turning it. Unless the knife has been very
carelessly used for deep cuts the edge is probably sharp, and then it is
changing the angle of cutting that produces the smoothness. Or
roughness may be caused by allowing the center to become loose, as
explained in the previous paragraph. All knives are set by expert-
mechanics before they leave the factory, and representatives should
be slow to experiment with a change unless the results are notice¬
ably bad.

First be able to know a good surface from a bad one when you see
it. Don't shave in the dark; use a lamp near the machine even in day¬
light, so that a glance at the cylinder while it is on the machine will
tell the eye it is smooth and polished. ,

The only sure test of a smooth surface is to place a cylinder on the
Phonograph, and allow the reproducer to magnify any roughness through
the hearing tubes in the representatives ears. The cylinders from the
factory are a model for smoothness. Carelessly shaved cylinders are
noisy and scratchy.

Setting the Shaving Knife.

Referring to Figure 3, noto the knife C is held in the bar B by the
set-screw A. Unscrew A until the sapphire knife can bo turned
. ,. by. slipping the wrench at B around the brans setting' (Fig. 4). The

angle at which the knife edge must touch the wax is nearly flat.
But to know the result of the adjustment, tighten the set-screw A,
Figure 3, and shave with the knife in the new position. If tilted too
much to the left a thread will be turned in the wax; too flat a setting

A Knife Clamp Screw D Knife Bar Nut.

B Hi urn Knife Setting E Knife Bar. 1

C Sapphire Knife. F TCnlfo Bur Plato.

will scrape the cylinder and show the wax torn in places. Just right
will appear when the surface is smooth and polished. Try the sound of
the surface on a Phonograph through the reproducer and hearing tubes
to know it is perfect. Instruct users to listen for rough cylinders
through the reproducer before dictating, and by every means at hand
endeavor to obtain perfect results in this detail. .

If necessary to insert a new shaving knife proceed as follows: The
new knife will be furnished with the sapphire blade, N, securely fastened
in its brass setting, '0, Figure 5. It is necessary to remove the bar
E (Fig. 3) from the shaving machine arm to insert the knife in the end.
Unscrew D and remove the plate with its square opening Bhown atF,
whicji insures the correct angle to the knife where it touches the wax.
The entire bar may now be removed.- Insert the knife with its cutting
edge N (Fig. 5), arranged as illustrated, with the clearance in back.

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Also in replacing the bar have the screw A (Fig. 3) in the front. The
fine adjustment of the knife in the bar should be done with the wrench
after the bar is replaced as previously described.

Practice light cuts. Take a heavy cut and notice white specks oil
the surface, due to the wax tearing under the deep incision. Also hear
this surface on the Phonograph; it will sound very rough, and is unfit
for good work. Practice light cuts.

Edison Commercial System. It is of mutual advantage to customer
and representative, preventing discouragement and loss of time in
using the System, while the representative saves work by attending
to small troubles before they become large repairs.

Let the representative proceed systematically to look over the
machines; and lie can accomplish his work thoroughly without delays in
less than 15 minutes for each instrument. There is no need for gossip
or talk in these inspection calls; we have only to think of the great
systems, telephone, telegraph, etc., that are inspected, 300 to 500 a
day, to know what can be accomplished in a small amount of time.

The rule is not alone to ask the user if all is satisfactory, but to
inspect the operation of each part as described below— then test the
result on a record to know it is satisfactory to this company.

Proceed in regular inspection order as follows:

The electrical connections should all be tried for loose points.

The mandrel and feed screw should be tried for end-play and friction
by giving the mandrel a spin, as directed on page 9.

Place oil in the central oil hole in the back of the top plate.

Oil the centers of all moving parts on top plate.

Clean the top plate, using an oily cloth.

Oil the leather F, Fig. 1, page 6, which bears on the friction plate
of the direct current motor.

Oil the centers on countershafts if Spring Motor or A. C. Type.

Examine the foot-trip and correct any undue friction.

Take out the rci>roduccr and recorder, examining them for any pos¬
sible trouble mentioned in the description of these tools./

Make a record with the recorder, and listen to it both on the
dictating and transcribing machine to know that it is perfect.

If the recorder sapphire point (J), the arm (B), or the diapl
(H) become loose, it will cause a “wheezing” or “whistling”
when used. Shellac or Stratina will fasten the loose parts.

Edison Recorder, Elf). 6.

Any bind of the parts in up and down motion of the bushing or ii
the action of the hinge (M) will cause an uneven sound when cutting ai
if the cylinder were out of true. This is due entirely to “sticking,’
and is caused by dirt in the parts or when the recorder is injured as bj
dropping. Practise listening to the cut of a recorder at the time it ii
working perfectly on the Phonograph. A steady strong cutting sount
will be heard. Teach dictators to listen for this cut. If there is i
faulty sound they will find the difficulty and not spoil a dictation
Rule: Listen to the cut, then talk.

Representatives in 'trouble are advised to temporarily substitute
the recorders from the swivel plate of transcribing machines with the

The Edison Reproducer.

It is important to cleai

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EDISON

PHONOGRAPHS

RECORDS. PARTS

AND ACCESSORIES

Dealers’

Discounts

April 1, 1908

Supersedes all Discount
Sheets of previous date.

NATIONAL PHONOGRAPH CO.

ORANGE, N. J., U. S. A.

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Information Concerning and Directions for Patting the

COMBINATION ATTACHMENT
On the Edison Home Phonograph

THE Combination Attachment for the Edison Home Phonographs, for Mode
A and B, consists of the following new para: Main shaft (37), assemble
with cylinder (aS) and driving pulley (30), special differential gear elute
(28), screw sleeve (ay), retaining collar (26), and set screw (3.), which take th
place of the old matn.shaft, cylinder and pulley. There is also a special pivot (29)
carrying a small gear to take the place of the old back center, and a small collar (32
. which is to be placed on the backrod between the diaphragm arm bearings wliic
limits the distance the diaphragm arm is to travel to the right. This collar is' to prevail
the thread of the feed-nut from coming into contact with the thrust collar which serve

drop of the cylinder shaft. A Model H Reproducer” for ’pllyinrthe’fou^minute 'o
Amberol, Record, a screw driver for applying these parts and a clutch-shifting live
bracket, with clutch lever assembled (24) for shifting clutch casing from Two-Minut
to the Four-Minute position, and vice ■versa. This dutch-shifting lever bracket i
furnished for Models A and B Phonographs only. For Model C Phonographs

GENERAL REFERENCE TO THE

ATTACHMENT PARTS

[.The fallowing reference, to th, Attachment are intended, to, explain in a genera I
•way the method of putting it on. The detailed instructions, with reference cuts, are
given on the following pages.} 1

wtli run i«o revolution, per minute, but the screw sleeve, being operated through
the small tram of gearing just described, will revolve half the number, or 80
revolution, per minute, feeding the diaphragm arm, or reproducer, at the coin of 200
the machine' will "1/ °F tbreod!‘ per inch- Whcn ,he cla,dl is ,his position,

7' w ,J,e Four"M,nute Record, and the diaphragm ai... a,„,ulu

p'Prt.U“r' WJ’iCh !* fi"'d Wi,h " n'W ,tyk 5“'’phir' «■■>>”« *“ be

used with the Four-M.nutc Record only. If it is desired to play the Standard, or Two-
Minute Record, the Model C Reproducer must be used, and the clutch casing must be
r.hn'd,'rb' left ‘n0 r'“ss in ,h' driving H'qr. In pushing this clutch, casing
ar „f ,. 7’m W‘ beCOm' dis™E»8«l «nd the two pin, fastened to the

cl'umhingethe1'feedI,scr«vVs!eev^toCthel,drivIng^pu”eyrwith i" T PUllf'y'dlh'r'b>’

MAKING AMATEUR RECORDS <
THE EDISON PHONOGRA1

A t'alnloirMp nl'

Edison Phonographs

Records, Reproducers,
Attachments and
Accessories

National I’lionojri-aph C'i

The reproduction of music mid
speech by the Kdisou J’liono-
ffrapli is easily the most natural,
the clearest and the freest from
extraneous sounds.

It has the longest placing
Record in the world— the Iviison
Aniheml Record — playing from
four to four and thrco-ipmrtcr
minutes, according to the selec¬
tion rendered.

it is the only type of sound-
reproducing instrument with
which records may lie made at
home— a never-failing source of
amusement to the family circle.

Among its styles is the new
Amhcrola Phonograph. This
instrument has been on the
market only a lew months, hut it
has already achieved a wonderful
popularity. It is a beautiful
musical instrument — an adorn¬
ment to any room or house.

'I'lie Kdisou Phonograph now
has the exclusive services of Leo
Slczak, the great tenor, in making
Records. It also has Records
by Margucril a Sylva, Riecardo

Marlin, Kloreneio Constantino,
lilunchc A mil, Carmen Melis,
and many other Grand Opera

It has the exclusive services
of Victor Herbert, the famous
composer and musician, and Ins
great orchestra, in making
Records. Its repertoire of in¬
strumental music also includes
Records by Sousa’s Rand, the
United States Marine Rand and
many other prominent organiza¬
tions. Its catalogues include the
widest range of vocal music from
selections from the great operas
by artists of world-renown to
popular songs by leading vaude¬
ville stars. It also has Records
in every important foreign lan¬
guage.

More Edison Phonographs
have been sold than any other
make. Their range of price places
them within the reach of all.

Edison Triumph Phonograph

Combination Type

Price, $60.00

Edison Standard Phonograph

Special Standard Equipments

vith Cygnet Horn

Edison Concert Records
Price, 75 Cents
1 ) I S( )X ( '<)iiri rl l{r«-nrtls!irf mmlo by Mm

tin: mimufnrturo of Phonographs of litis kind.
C'oiierrL ltirnrds mv niadn to ordn* only,
simply lo supply nmcliim s of this typo (play-

Model D

Repeating Attachment

Edison Standard Records
Price, 35 Cents

l I

Concert Phonograph
Attachments

Edison Blanks

Recording Horn

Attachments for
Playing Amberol Records

With tO Special Amberol Record.

Hearing Tubes

sisiiEii

Hearing Tube Rails

Chloride Accumulator Storage
Battery

“MY SOUTH POLAR EXPEDITION”

LIEUT. E. H.

SHACKLETON

ON AN EDISON AMBEROL RECORD

“My South Polar Expedition”

By Lieut. Ernest H. Shackleton

EDISON AMBEROL RECORD No. 473

<1, Lieutensint lirnest H. Shackleton, of
England, is scarcely less famous as an
arctic explorer than our own Peary.
Lieutenant Shackleton did not actually
et to the South Pole, but the feat of
is party in reaching a point only
ninety-seven miles distant from it is
second only to the discovery of the
North Pole. The knowledge of the
antarctic regions gained by Lieutenant
Shackleton’s expedition is of the great¬
est importance to science and history.

<[ Lieutenant Shackleton has just made
this Edison Record about his South
Pole trip. On it he gives some of the
privations of his party, and he tells of
some of the dangers that beset them on
all sides. It is a notable Record, made
by a notable man.

C, At a dinner given in New York
recently, ex-Ambassador Choate, in an
address to Lieutenant Shackleton, said:

“America has no lack of arctic explor¬
ers of its own, real and pretended. It
has a profound admiration for all the

explorers of other lands, especially of
the mother country. You have come
to a people of 80,000,000, all eager to
hear the story of your great career.

“ 1 1 is only twenty years since you left
Dulwich College and entered the mer¬
chant marine. Now you are known
everywhere and honored everywhere.
Not the least part of your achievement
is that you have aroused no envy, no
inquiry, no criticism. We ask our own
explorers to submit to inquiry and in¬
vestigation. We take your own word
for your thrilling story.

“ For 1 27 days you took your life in
your hands. You came back starved
and exhausted, but you brought every
one of your men with you, and you had
been within 100 miles of the South
Pole. The Stars and Stripes float over
the North Pole. It is only fair that we
should leave the field open for the
hoisting of the Union Jack at the
South.”

C; Lieutenant Shackleton was on March
28th presented with the Cullen Geo¬
graphical Medal by the American
Geographical Society.

National Phonograph Company
ORANGE, N. J.

Lieut. Shackleton will make no
other Records about his South Pole
Expedition.

National Phonograph Co.,

New York City.

to-day relating to my recent South Polar Kxpedi-
tion arc the only phonograph or talking machine
records I have ever made for public sale, and I
agree to make records for public sale hereafter, on
the subject of my Expedition towards the South
Pole, only for your company.

Faithfully yours,

JOBBERS’ AND DEALERS’

DISCOUNTS AND NET PRICES

EDISON PHONOGRAPHS

Records, Accessories and Parts

NATIONAL PHONOGRAPH CO,

ORANGE, N. J.

Index

Past and Present Models of Gem Phonographs

^ Embossed Cabinet Top. Crane Socket in Swing
Arm. Starling Button on end of Body. In 1902 this machine
was equipped with a Model B Reproducer and Recorder
omitted from equipment. Lift Lever or '
inch Black Japanned Tin Horn.

awing rtrm. uornmnation Gears for playing both
two ami four minute Records. Model K Reproducer. Eight-
Petal Polygonal Horn finished In Maroon.

Edison Gem Phonograph

Edison Standard Phonograph

Two-Minute Type

Straight Horns

Specially Decorated -

Mahogany Cabinet and Mahogany Finished hi

machines are ordered with any ONE kind of Horn in lots of five or multiples thereof.

Edison Idelia Phonograph

Effective May 15, 1910

Edison Amberola Phonograph !

LIST

DiscountLERNc«

JOBBERS

Oak Cabinet, Mission or Golden Oak Finish

200.00

40%

120.00

50%

100.00

Mahogany Cabinet, Dull or Plano Finish -----
Circassian Walnut Cabinet -------

250.00

Edison Alva Phonograph

Combination Type

Straight Horna

Oak Cabinet and Oak Finished H<

peclally Decor

Mahogany Cabinet and Mahogany Finished Horn

“ “ " “ “ 14 Specially Decora

Horns, Horn Cranes and Horn Connections esJUV'mw' .<,.<>

Recording Horn I

For making Records at Home — 26x6x1 Inches | 2-°0 ] - 150 | • • •'■ | 1-25

An allowance of 25 cents per horn is made to Jobbers when horns of any ONE kind are ordered in
quantities of five or multiples of five.

Horns, Horn Cranes and Horn Connections sheet no. „

CONTINUED Effective Hay .5, 1910

Shaving Machines and Phonograph Cabinets

Universal Shaving Machines

Phonograph Cabinets

Balmoral

Miscellaneous

‘Music Master” Wooden Cvernet Horns

INDEX

Gem Phonograph, Model B...... .

Gem Phonograph, Model C .

Gem Phonograph, Model D .

Fireside Phonograph, Model A...
Standard Phonograph, Model B. .
Standard Phonograph, Model C. .
Standard Phonograph, Model D..

Home Phonograph, Model 13 .

Home Phonograph, Model C .

Home Phonograph, Model D .

Triumph Phonograph, Model II..
Triumph Phonograph, Model C..
Triumph Phonograph, Model I)..
Ambcrola Phonograph, Model A.

Edison Recorder . .

Edison Reproducer, Model C _

Edison Reproducer, Model II....
Edison Reproducer, Model K....

Gem Attachment .

Standard Attachment .

Home, Triumph, Concert and all 1
graph Attachments .

Notice to the Trade

In ordering parts, always give type
and serial number of machine, in addition
to the catalogue numbers of the parts
wanted.

Dealers are urged to order parts from
their Jobbers whenever possible. If this
cannot be done, and it is desired to order
direct from the factory, such orders must
be accompanied by remittance to cover
cost. Postage must also be added if order
is to be filled by mail. Orders for parts
are too small to open ledger accounts.

The parts shown in this catalogue are
not given in their true proportion to each
other; some are larger, others smaller.

EDISON GEM PHONOGRAPH, MODEL “B’

EDISON GEM PHONOGRAPH, MODEL “B”

^JP^ORDERING PARTS, GIVE SERIAL NUMBER OF MACHINE

in Assembled.. .

“ " ' Lift Pin oml Head. .

Speaker Locating Pin .

Feed Nut and 'spring Assembled . .

:: fcJ’a'ST:.::::::::-.

Cylinder, including Pulley
Cylinder Pulley and Gear.. .

Winding Shaft and Pinion .

Shaft Spring .

“ Washer . .

Spring Shaft, ‘ Assembled
th Spring, Hatchet and First

Spring Shaft, Assembled

1073. Winding Hatchet Pawl Stud .

.. ...Jing Hale net. rnwi aim
. „ . .. Spring Retaining Washer . .

113s! Winding ltatchct Pawl, fo

1130. Winding Hatchet Pawl Spring,

I. Winding Hatchet Pawl Spring Stud

I. Winding Gear y .^. • • . .

). First Shaft with Pinion and Second

i. Second Gear . . . .
1. Second Shaft. ..

1228. Third Gear .

1008. “ “ SctScr

2009. Driving Pulley

Set Screw .

Tightening Arm with Pulley . .

“ Pulley .

« " Stud .

" Spring^.. | .

Arm Stud . .

2028. Governor, Assembled without

. Governor Disc ami Sleeve . .

“ Hall and Spring . '-()

“ Spring Screw . 0-_>

«» " “ Washer... .0o

" Carrier Collars and Wire .25

“ “ Set Screw . (15

“ Shaft and Pinion . ,00

« << Pivot Hearing. . U •#>

1117. Starting Lever with Friction and

Starting Hod Post .

1 1 •*«. Starting Lever Friction . . .

“ Hod Post....

Lever Stud . .

EDISON STANDARD PHONOGRAPH, MODEL “B’

SPECIAL PARTS OF MODEL “C” PHONOGRAPHS

GEM PHONOGRAPH MODEL “C”

EDISON AMBEROLA PHONOGRAPH

. Spring Barrel Cover . .

. Barrel Double Sleeve mid! look?3 *

'• “ Gear and Ratchet Pin'/.

. Barrel Gear .

in2o?* r'* " > Dowo1 Pin. 7.7. *. ! .* !

I07-O. First Shaft with Pinion and

_ Second Gear . .

10730. First Shaft .

S00*#. C;,cl*r'vi.t!1 Hrst Pinion* * ! .*

-‘03. First Shaft Buslung .

r. ” , “ - “ Set Screw _

10/20. Second Shaft with Pinion and

1 bird ( icar . j

10713. Second Shaft.*.*.

“ Set Screw..

J <32. Third Gear and Hub .

o-oo ‘ o U ” SetScrew .

-‘03. Second Shaft Bushing .

in-on* m • * . 7! Set Screw

0712. Third Shaft...

ocn?’ ir°l,rtI* Gear n»d ifub! . i
ga.* Third Sha ft Bushfng5.'^,*/
Pulley End . . .

- .mru .Shaft Bisiiing ScV Screw, '°5

_ Pinion End . ' or.

.093. Governor, Assent.- without Shaft. 2.25

vurnvr coimrs ami N iro

Set Screw .

Spring Collar Set Screw
Balls and Springs .

I 20390.
82.
20019.

* b

-Continued from Page 24

Speed Adjusting lever . $(

Speed Adjusting Screw and Knob,

Assembled . .

Sjjced Indicator and Huh. Assent..

-Asscliihlcii

peed Indicator and Huh. Ai
" “ Hub Set Set-

a* . " .

'! Tightening Arm am! Pnilev

Asm-imI.Ii-.I . '

iwt Tightening Arm and Hub.’.’
" “ Pulley

10722.
j ..jj'j;'

. \\ haling Crnnk, Assembled . apu

CABINET PARTS

I. Cabinet Cover St ay Arm, Assam .

Cabinet Cover Lock .'

" “ “ Strike....

.. „ Escutcheon.

;; Hinge. “f;::””

:: “ Cushions (Pel

Drawer .Stop

Xmii;::.

f rawer stop .

Knob with Screw.

t> , „ , Knob with Serov

fefe|p'.Co:nplc,c’

FseiKclicn,, ..

EDISON AMBEROLA PHONOGRAPH-Continued

CABINET PARTS

PARTS OF PHONOGRAPH ATTACHMENTS FOR PLAYING
FOUR-MINUTE RECORDS

' Compound Goars, Largo mul Sii'mli? A
,, , , Sot Screw . . .

F HOME, TRIUMPH, CONCERN
-L ELECTRIC PHONOGRAPH ’’
ATTACHMENTS
(Not Illustrated)

PARTS OF STANDARD ATTACHMENT '
Gear Guard tN°‘ ,llu,lr,l,",>

", “ ^ ^ Set Screw . |o,!j a ,

" \\ l’ivot Hearing . . . . . . . . 4ftt “ •

Screw ” “ op Center Set \ Main SI

2Si<oC1S

Mmn Shaft Pulley Set Screw . * ‘

" “ Pin . “

tiChfingo Gear with Stud . “

Clutch Casing with Gear,’ Locating Pii
rate dingi’in and Spring,’.! ! ! ’

Food Scow, n„IPta.S!,™gSm:';.V:

” ” Thrust Collar with Stop . .

•A

PRINTED MATERIAL— NON-EDISON COMPANIES

American Scenic Company

"Thomas Crahan's Artistic Glimpses of the Wonder World." 1900.

S. R. Bailey & Company

"The Bailey Electric Victoria Phaeton." 1910.

Battery Supplies Company

"Gladstone-Lalande Batteries." 1903. [With attached circular.]

A.B. Dick Company

"The Edison Mimeograph." Form 62. 1910.

Electric Storage Battery Company

"The Electric Storage Battery Co., Sole Manufacturer of the 'Chloride Accumulator.'"
1901.

Federal Storage Battery Car Company

"Beach Cars Equipped With Edison Storage Batteries." Ca. 1910.

"Bulletin No. 3." Ca. 1910.

Freid Engineering Company

"The Freid Gravity Dry Process Separators for Separating and Concentrating Ore
Values." N.D. [With two attached sheets.]

International Textbook Company (International Correspondence Schools)

"Languages: I.C.S. System with Phonograph." 1903. [From Scrapbook, Cat. 44,494.]
"Back Talk by the I.C.S. Language System with Repeating Phonograph." 1904. [From
Scrapbook, Cat. 44,494.]

"Lessons in Speaking, Reading, and Writing the English Language for Foreigners."
1904. [From Scrapbook, Cat. 44,494.]

H. Wolke, Inventor [Herman Wolke]

"Newly Planned and Constructed Compound and Variable Speed Turbine." Ca. 1903.
"Something New in the Toy Line: Automatic Dancing Doll and Display Stand." Ca.
1904.

Primary Printed Series
American Scenic Company

"Thomas Crahan's Artistic Glimpses of the Wonder World." 1 900.

" - ■

Primary Printed Series
S. R. Bailey & Company

"The Bailey Electric Victoria Phaeton." 1910.

= Bailey
Electric
Victoria
Phaeton

— Bailey
Electric
Vehicles

1910

The

Edison

Battery

Cars

- S. R. Bailey & Company, Inc.
Amesbury, Mass., U. S. A.

The Bailey Electric

SMBailey Electric
Victoria Phaeton

The Bailey Electric Victoria Phaeton
is a characteristic product of this old
and noted company. For more than
fifty years their vehicle products have
been known for beauty of design, in¬
genious mechanical construction and
superlative grade in handicraft and
materials.

The two generations of skill in hand¬
ling the ingredients of light draft have
been applied to the electric automo¬
bile problem, and five years to this
one vehicle.

The makers believe it to be the per¬
fect type for city and suburban use.

Price, $2350.00 to $2600.00

Victoria Phaeton

Page Two

General Description

This Victoria is the lightest electric automobile
ever made of its type and size. The very large
battery capacity and sturdy high voltage motor
make the total weight only 2,000 pounds, but the
weight of the vehicle alone, i. e., less motor,
battery, and countershaft, is only 825 pounds.

The Weight is carried low. The frame, while
gracefully curved, is in effect a “drop” frame.
The battery is hung, by 3 point suspension, un¬
der the floor and is easily accessible.

The Motor is of special design (60 or 48 volts),
and of .high efficiency. Light weight in this
detail is sacrificed to durability.

Stowage The motor is placed low in. the frame
and well in the rear so that the entire space
under the seat is available for stowage. Consider
this.

Steering A regular wheel steer is used, safe,
sensible, and sure — just like that of the com¬
mon gasoline car.

Lamps These lamps, by means of an ingenious
switch of our own, may be increased and de¬
creased (turned up or down) in brilliancy.

Victoria Phaeion

Page Three

Primary Printed Series
Battery Supplies Company

"Gladstone-Lalande Batteries." 1 903. [With attached circular.]

IMPORTANT NOTICE

SOME TIME subsequent to November i, 1903, the Edison Manufacturing Company commenced to
paste a printed restriction upon the jars of batteries sold by them to the effect that purchasers of
batteries bearing this notice, must thereafter buy from the Ejiison Manufacturing Company all renewals
required for such batteries.

This notice was not put upon the batteries until subsequent to November I, 1903,
and we desire it to be distinctly understood that this restriction does not apply to Edison
Primary Batteries sold prior to the last-mentioned date, November I, 1903, but that the
owners of all batteries which were sold prior to the last-mentioned date, November 1, 1903,
or which have been sold subsequently without this notice, have a perfect right to buy their
renewal parts from the Battery Supplies Company or its authorized agents.

We furthermore desire it to be distinctly understood that we do not wish to sell renewal parts to be
used in batteries bought from the Edison Manufacturing Company with the foregoing restriction since
November I, 1903.

We. further call attention to the fact that such a restriction places the purchaser at
the mercy of the Edison Manufacturing Company, enabling them for all time to charge
excessive prices for renewal parts required for batteries purchased with this restriction.

This restriction is one that the Battery Supplies Company could also insist upon in regard to the sale
of renewal parts for the Gladstone-Lalande Batteries, but it has refrained from so doing in the interest of the
purchasing public. BATTERY SUPPLIES COMPANY,

Dated December 5, 1 QOJ. ' J. W. Gladstone, Proprietor.

Description of the Gladstone-Lalande Battery

HE NEW Gladstone-Lalande Battery which we now are placing on the market is a
modification of the original Lalande & Chaperon Battery which was first invented about
twenty years ago.

It is remarkable that Lalande in his United States patent of 1883 anticipated all the
present forms of caustic soda batteries (using copper oxide as a depolarizer) which are now
on the market. A reference to this patent shows one illustration of a perforated metal
receptacle in which granulated or powdered copper oxide is held, whereas another illustration shows a
compressed agglomerated plate of copper oxide removably held in a supporting frame. It therefore follows
that the Lalande & Chaperon patent of 1883 broadly covered all caustic soda batteries now on the market,
and that the only advantages that can be claimed for any of them, over the battery as originally invented by
Lalande & Chaperon, are minor details of construction.

One single exception to this broad generalization must, however, be made. A patent was taken out
by Lalande on August 2, 1892, the essential feature of which was the use of a plate of compressed solidified
copper oxide having its surface reduced to the metallic state. Previous to this time the copper oxide plates used
in these batteries did not have the surface reduced to metallic copper, and the result was that it was necessary to
short circuit such batteries for a, period of from fifteen to thirty minutes before a moderate current could be
obtained.

Lalande appreciated the fact that this was a most serious objection to that form of
Lalande Battery in which the copper oxide was used in the form of compressed solidified
plates, and after a series'of experiments, he succeeded in reducing the surface of the oxide
plate to the metallic state, which immensely increases the surface contact with the underlying
portion of the compressed plate of copper oxide. (See figure 1.)

heads on each side o

This important patent is now owned by ns, together with three new patents covering
onstruction of the new Gladstone-Lalande Battery.

A brief description of this cell may not be out of place at this point. The distinctive
feature of this new battery is the method of holding the copper oxide plate, which is
held in position by two perforated flat copper spring clamps, covering about one-
third of each face of the plate. One of these clamps is riveted to the two sides of
the U-shaped hanger (see figure 2) and the other clamp, “C,” is detachable so as
to allow the oxide plate to be easily removed and another similar oxide plate inserted.
This detachable clamp, “ C,” is removed from the copper hanger by tapping one or
both of the curved extensions with a piece of wood or metal, in the direction
from below, so as to make the clamp move slightly upward, which will allow the rive't-
)f the hanger “H” to pass through the eyelet-holes at each end of the clamp “C” (figure 3).

The exhausted oxide plate will then be automatically ejected from the hanger by the pressure of the fixed spring
clamp riveted to the other side of the hanger which bears against the flat surface of the oxide plate. A new

oxide plate can then be placed in position and the detachable clamp “ C ” fitted to the frame by reversing the
method of procedure outlined above.

The great advantage of this construction will be seen at a glance, as it is not necessary to soil the fingers
by unscrewing thumb nuts covered with the solution, nor to clean out narrow channelled or grooved sides
constituting the contact parts of some styles of batteries in use at the present time. The wide surfaces of

contact presented by the perforated spring clamps of the Gladstone-Lalande Battery renders it unnecessary for
any cleaning or sandpapering to be done when recharging these batteries.

The zinc plates used in the Gladstone-Lalande Batteries are made of an alloy
of the purest zinc and mercury, and are suspended in such a position that the zinc plates
are entirely immersed in the solution. In some models of these batteries the two zinc

plates are cast on separate amalgamated metallic stems (figure 4), which are bolted to the knob on
the cover, whereas in others the two zinc plates are cast on the two projecting ends of a U-shaped
hanger furnished with threaded stem, which is clamped to the cover. The advantage of entirely
immersing the zinc plates in the solution was emphasized by Lalande in his English patent of 1884.

The solution used is a 20 per cent, solution of the very highest grade of caustic soda that
can be obtained, and a layer of pure mineral oil is used on the top of the solution to prevent
creeping and evaporation.

In the construction of the Gladstone-Lalande Battery all the objectionable features possessed
by other caustic soda batteries are eliminated, and the method of recharging the battery has
been simplified so that this can be done in about one-tenth of the time and without the trouble
which it takes to recharge any other battery of this general design which is now on the market.

The quality of the raw materials used in the manufacture of the batteries and renewal parts is of the
very highest grade, and special attention is given that everything manufactured by us shall be thoroughly up
to the standard. We are making five styles of batteries, four of which are suitable for stationary work, and
one style specially for portable work.

A description of each individual cell appears on the page opposite to the price list and illustration showing
same, and also some information as to the special uses to which these cells should be put, and the approximate
number of cells to be used on each class of work.

The great advantages possessed by this battery over all others are:

Constancy of current;

Absence of local action when the battery is idle;

Extremely low internal resistance, thereby allowing a high voltage to be maintained at the terminals of
the battery;

Simplicity in renewing.

Description Gladstone- Lalande Battery

MODEL G10

THIS BATTERY is furnished with vitrified porcelain jar and cover. It can be made liquid-tight by the
use of a piece of adhesive tape about inch wide, which should be affixed to the edge of the cover and
lap over about 2/& inch of the top part of the wall of the jar. The two zinc plates in this cell are cast on
a U-shaped hanger having a threaded stem, which passes through a hole in the cover, to which it is rigidly
fastened by a jamb nut and wing nut. The size over all is 4^ inches diameter by 6% inches high.

Special Uses for Model Gio Ballcrics

Gas and Gasoline Stationary Engines. Use 6 cells with suitable spark coil. ' ■ -

Gasoline Engine Launches. Use 6 or 7 cells (taped) with suitable spark coil.

Annunciators for hotels and office buildings. Use 6 to 9 cells.

Long Distance Telephones in constant use. Use 5 to 7 cells.

Railroad Crossing Bell Signals. Use about 10 cells.

Price List Gladstone-Lalande Battery

MODEL GIO

E. M. F. Open Circuit . 95 volt

E. M. F. Closed Circuit . 7 volt

Capacity 100 ampere hours

Knieboog Gio Complete Battery with charge . . ’. . $1.50

Renewal Charges

Kniedicht G11 Complete Renewal . . per set .72

Separate Parts

Kniefall G12 One Oxide Plate . 24

Kniefalles G13 One double Zinc Plate . 28

Kniegurt G14 One can Caustic Soda . IJ

Kniegurtes G15 One bottle Paraffine Oil . 05

Description Gladstone-Lalande Battery

MODEL G30

THIS BATTERY is furnished with enameled steel jar and a porcelain cover having a groove round the
inner edge into which a soft rubber ring fits so as to make the cell liquid-tight. There is a brass stud in
the cover having a pin-hole opening in the top to allow any gas that may be generated to escape. The
two zinc plates in this cell are cast on a U-shaped hanger having a threaded stem which passes through a hole
in the cover, to which it is rigidly fastened by a jamb nut and wing nut. The size over all is inches
diameter by_ 8 inches high.

Special Uses for Model G30 Batteries

Gasoline Launches. Use 6 cells with suitable spark coil.

Portable Gasoline Agricultural Engines. Use 6 cells with suitable spark coil.

CAUTION — These batteries with enameled steel jars should not be used on sea going launches, as
the sea air and sea water vigorously attack any slight imperfection in the enamel and rapidly corrode the steel
shell underneath the enamel, ultimately eating a hole through same. For sea going launches the Gladstone-
Lalande .Battery with porcelain jar G36 should be used. The only difference in this cell is that a porcelain jar
is used instead of an enameled steel jar and that no rubber ring is required, as it can be rendered liquid-tight by
the use of a piece of adhesive tape, as described on page 6.

Price List Gladstone-Lalande Battery

MODEL G30, WITH ENAMELED STEEL JAR

E. M. F. Open Circuit . . . . .95 volt

E. M. F. Closed Circuit . 7 volt

Capacity ijo ampere hours

Knielbank G30 Complete Battery (as above) with charge ....... $2.50

Renewal Charges

Knielde G31 Complete Renewal . per set .89

Separate Parts

Knieschlng G32 One Oxide Plate . .31

Kniespat G33 . One double Zinc Plate . .35

Kniestuhl G34 One can Caustic Soda . 17

Knietief G3J One bottle Paraffine Oil . . - .... .06

Knietiefes G36 Gladstone-Lalande Battery, with porcelain jar (with charge) . $2.20

Description Gladstone-Lalande Battery

MODEL G50

THIS BATTERY is furnished with vitrified porcelain jar and cover. The two zinc plates are cast on
separate stems, and are bolted together with a bolt equipped with wing nuts, which passes through a
horizontal hole in the knob on the cover. The size over all is 7% inches diameter by ioj£ inches high.

Special Uses for Model G40 Batteries

Gas and Gasoline Stationary Engines. Use 4 or 5 cells with suitable spark coil.

Annunciators for large hotels and office buildings. Use j to 8 cells.

Railroad Crossing Bell Signals. Use 8 to 10 cells.

Fire Alarm and Police Telegraph.

Local and Main Line Telegraphs.

Fan Motors and Turn Tables.

The advantage of using the G50 cell over the Gao cell consists in the fact that the capacity (life) of
the G50 cell is double that of the Gao cell ; consequently the G50 cell will last twice as long as the Gao cell
on the same class of work before requiring to be recharged. The internal resistance of the G50 cell is also
considerably less than that of the Gao cell ; therefore a smaller number of Gjo cells is required in most
instances than where the Gao cell is used.

Price List Gladstone-Lalande

MODEL G50

E. M. F. Open Circuit . gj volt

E. M. F. Closed Circuit ... .7 volt

Capacity 300 ampere hours

Knievormig Gjo Complete Battery with charge . • . $1.

Renewal Charges

Kniewelle G j 1 Complete Renewal . per set

Separate Parts

Knoflook Gja One Oxide Plate .

Kniffes Gj3 Two Zinc Plates (aj cents each) . . .

Knokkels G54 One can Caustic Soda .

Knolkool G5J One bottle Paraffine Oil

These renewal charges] can also be used in Lalande Cells, Types R and

Description Gladstone-Lalande Battery

MODEL GGO

Special Uses for Model G60 Batteries

These batteries are expressly designed for railroad semaphore signal work and are much more efficient
than any battery that has been placed on the market up to the present time.

It is customary to use about sixteen cells of this battery for operating electric motor semaphore signals.
These batteries are also equally suitable for use with electro-gas signals.

Price List Gladstone-Lalande Battery

MODEL G60

E. M. F. Open Circuit . 95 volt

E. M. F. Closed Circuit ... .7 volt

Capacity 300 ampere hours

Knikstag G60 Complete Battery with charge . $3-^5

Renewal Charges

Knipbeugel G61 Complete Renewal . per set 1.46

Separate Parts

Knipboon G62 Two Oxide Plates (31 cents each) . 62

Knollhuf G63 Two Zinc' Plates (25 cents each) . 50

Knipkunst G64 One can Caustic Soda . . . .28

Knipluis G6j One bottle Paraffine Oil . 06

[ATTACHMENT]

BATTERY SUPPLIES COMPANY,

I AVENUES,

Newark, n.

December 9th, 1903.

Dear Sirs:

Under separate cover we are sending you our catalogue of the
new Glad stone -Lalande Batteries, which we are now placing upon the market.

The distinguishing feature in these new batteries is the method
employed for holding the copper oxide plate, which is held by its flat
surfaces between two spring clamps, thereby enabling it to be changed
very readily.

In reference to the notice on page 2 of our catalogue, we do
not believe that the attention of the trade has been specially drawn to
the labels containing restrictive notices which are pasted upon the bat¬
teries recently sold by the Edison Manufacturing Company, nor do we
believe that purchasers of batteries bearing these restrictive notices
purchase, .same with the knowledge, that not only do they bind themselves
during the life of the patent, but long after the expiration of same,
and in fact as long as such batteries are in use.

We of course cannot hold ourselves responsible for the use by
you of our renewals, in batteries having such restrictions, as we sell
our renewals for use in all batteries purchased without restrictions.
Including our own cells .

co.

SEC'O W-c 11 191,3

Yours truly,

BATTERY SUPPLIES COMPANY

Primary Printed Series
A.B. Dick Company

"The Edison Mimeograph." Form 62. 1910.

INTRODUCTORY

THE TYPE OF MIMEOGRAPH DESCRIBED

“STANDARD”

Over 300,000 users furnish indis¬
putable testimony of the value of
Edison’s Mimeographs.

For a quarter of a century, in which
duplicating machines have come and
gone, the Edison Mimeograph has
remained supreme and alone as the
most practical duplicating machine
adapted to all uses and purposes, and
tells its own story.

Recognized as the "standard dupli¬
cating machine" in every civilized
country on the face of the globe, there
can be no doubt that, where a dupli¬
cating device is required, the "Edison”
meets all requirements.

Notwithstanding this, no effort and
expense have been spared to continu¬
ally improve this invaluable device
and make it better.

The Standard Mimeograph is
designed for the reproduction of hand¬
writing, drawings, maps, music, and

all work the original of which can be
made with a pen or a pencil.

It is not intended for reproducing
typewriting. (For information regarding
Mimeographs for reproducing typewriting, ask
for catalogs of the No. 61, No. 62 and No. 63

graph, and No. 76 Rotary Mimeograph — 1910
model— which has an automatic self-inking

The aim of the manufacturers of
the Standard Mimeograph has been to
produce a duplicating device that was
simple in its operation, practically
indestructible, unaffected by tempera¬
ture or climatic conditions, portable,
cleanly in operation, adapted to any
kind of paper, capable of a large
number of copies, rapid in operation,
and reproducing exact facsimiles of
the original, plain and distinct.

The Standard Mimeograph meets
all of these requirements.

It will reproduce 1,000 copies per
hour, which so perfectly imitate the
original that the difference is scarcely
perceptible.

The machine is made of mahogany
with nickel-plated trimmings, hand¬
somely polished and artistically
finished, and kept in a hardwood case
which is of itself an ornamental piece
of cabinet-work.

Primary Printed Series
Electric Storage Battery Company

"The Electric Storage Battery Co., Sole Manufacturer of the 'Chloride
Accumulator.'" 1901.

: ElECTRIfSTORAGE BATTERY CO

SOLE MANUFACTURER OP THE

“Cblortbe
Bccumu later'

' r ■ aBNERAL OFFICES /

Allegheny Avenue and 19th Street, Philadelphia

,-5-%

1901

HE Electric Storage Battery Company has ac¬
quired all the patents and patent rights concern¬

ing the manufacture of electric storage batteries,

heretofore owned or controlled by

/ The General Electric Company,

'' The Edison Electric Light Company,
The Thomson-Houston Electric
Company,

The Brush Electric Company,

The Accumulator Company,

The Consolidated Electric Storage
Company,

The General Electric Launch Company,
The Bradbury-Stone Electric Storage
Company,

The Hopedale Electric Company,

The Pumpelly-Sorley Battery Company,
The Plante Company,

• and

< The Aceumulatoren-Fabrik Aktien-
;■ Gesellschaft,

'^thereby seedring to itself the sole right to supply in
he United States' and Canada storage batteries of all
exvarious important types heretofore developed.

‘ Vl %'! ' r •

THE [LEtTRICSTORAGE BATTERY CD.

“dbioiube

Storage Batteries

'TT'HE acquisition five years ago by The Electric
Battery Company of all the basic patents an
rights underlying the manufacture of storage b
and the securing since then of patents and patent ri
new and valuable types, enable this Company to furn
adapted to every requirement for standard or special u
The alliance existing between The Electric Stori
tery Company and the largest manufacturers of stor
teries in England, Germany and France, secures to tli
pany the fruitful experience of the highest eugineerin
available in this special field of electrical manufacture.

the highest efficiency, the Ion
mechanical methods of constructii
The Electric Storage Battery
covering the applications of boost
• lations, and has developed types
meet the requirements of the vari
storage batteries are operated.

ELEMENTS OF TYPE "H”

Size of Plates, 15# inches by 30& inches.

33 35 37

43 46 47

03| Osl 67

400

440

480

520

J60

600

640 080 720

760

800

840 880 920

900

1000

1040

1080

1200

1240 1280 1320

~^o

JUO

072

—

728

784

840

890 952 1008

1004

1120

1176 1232 1288

1400

1612

1080

1736 1792 1848

1004

1900

2072

“

880

960

1040

1120

1200

1280J 1360 ,440

1620

1600

1080 1760 1840

1920

2000i

2080

2100

2240

2320

2400

2480 2660 2640

2720

2880

2060

1600

noo

3040

3840

4000

4640,

4800

4960 6120 6280

64401

5000

400

440

660

64o| 68o| 720

700

84oj 88o| 920

1000

108°l

1120

1200

1360

1440

2« 28 20* 31% 33% 36 36* 38* 40* 42 43 % 43% 47 % 49 60* 62* 54* 66 67* M% 31% 63 04* 06* 08* 70 71* 73*

21* 21* 21* 21* 21* 21* 21* 21* 21* 21* 21* 21* 21* 21* 21* 21* 21* 21* 21* 21* 21* 21* 21* 21* 21* 21* 21* 21*

42* 42* 42* 42* 42* 42* 42* 42* 42* 43* 43* 48* 43* 43* 43* 43* 43* 43* 43* 43* 43* 43* 43* 43* 43* 43* 43* 43*

(See Page 19.)

Packing Charges.

In addition to the prices for Elements and Jars the following
charges will be made for cases and packing.

“B” and “ B. T.” Elements, 2 cents each.

" C” and " C. T.” Elements; 4 " "

“ P. T.” Elements, 10 cents each.

"D” Elements, 10 cents each.

•!E"- Elements, 15 . “ "

" F ” Elements, 25 " "

” F ” Plates (knocked down), 3 cents per plate;

“G ’’Plates ” “ 5 .

”H” Plates ''' ” g: " , '•

Portable Batteries up to 100 pounds weight, 25 cents each ;
100 pounds and over, 50 cents each..

Rubber Jars, 5 cents each.

No charge for packing Glass Jars.

The minimum charge on any one order, 25 cents.

PRICES.

Trade Discounts furnished on application.

When ordering note the following :

(1.) Prices of Elements do not include Rubber Jars, Glass
Jars, Tanks, Electrolyte or Connectors, which are additional.

(2.) Prices are for delivery F. 0. B. cars at works, Alle¬
gheny Avenue and Nineteenth St., Philadelphia, or Camden,
N. J.

(3.) Carboys will be allowed for in full when returned to
our works, in good condition, charges prepaid.

We are not liable for damage to goods in transit; our
responsibility ceases when we deliver the material in good
order to the Transportation Company; all claims for dam¬
age in transit should be made against the carrier.

Sundry Supplies.

Electrolyte (Battery Fluid) . $3.00 per 100 lbs.

Hydrometers . 1.50 each.

Sealing Compound . 50 per lb.

Bolt Connectors, Type E and F . . . ... .24 each.

” “ ’’ B, CandD. . . ; .15 ”

Binding Posts for Portable Cells . 40 per set of two.

Renewals.

‘Cbloribe Hccumulators” for Various
Purposes.

Chloride Accumulators are made of various capacities,
and are used for many different classes of work, practically
including the entire field of applied electricity.

Following is a list of some of the applications of the
Chloride Accumulator :

Central station lighting
Central station power
Trolley regulation
Isolated lighting

Street car traction

Electric locomotives
Electric launches
Electric vehicles

Electric elevator regulation

Yacht lighting Train lighting

Carriage lighting
Fan motors

Electric bells
Telegraph

Telephone

Fire-alarm

Phonographs

Kinetoscopes

Electric pianos

Sewing machine motors
Heat regulation

Dental, medical, surgical and laboratory work
Railroad switch and signal apparatus

The Electric Storage Battery Co

GENERAL OFFICES!

Allegheny Avenue and 19th Street,
PHILADELPHIA.

■ • SALES offices:

t PHILADELPHIA, NEW YORK,

Allegheny Ave. and 19th St, 100 Broadway.

f BOSTON, CHICAGO,

I so State Street. Marquette Building.

I BALTIMORE, ST. LOUIS,

J Equitable Building. Walnwrlght Building.

5 SAN FRANCISCO, CLEVELAND,

j Nevada Block. New England Building.

This List Supersedes All Previous Issues

Prices Subject to Change
Without Notice

We are not liable for damage to goods
In transit; our responsibility ceases when
we deliver the material in good order to the
Transportation Company) all claims for dam¬
age in transit should be made against the
carrier.

Primary Printed Series
Federal Storage Battery Car Company

"Beach Cars Equipped With Edison Storage Batteries." Ca. 1910.

"Bulletin No. 3." Ca. 1910.

f pnrn

iIhhi

i Pi

I C) l™l

r mm

I1 — 1

mmmkmmmmmmmgmm

BEACH TRUCK USED IN SINGLE TRUCK CAR

inj^Vnick Journal*, Bnll^Bcnrlng 'Motor ^Journals,
oscillation ordinarily, experienced fn single truck c

END VIEW OF BEACH CAR

Double Truck Type 1 01

CAR PERFORMANCE

BEACH CAR, No. 1

iT SUCCESSFUL. STORAGE BATTERY CAR PRODUCED-

BEACH CAR

Double Truck Type 101

! over drip,
platforms s

the seats.

fwiv

Double Truck Type 101

There Is proof positive on record that the Beach Arched Roof is the plot
The attractiveness, strength and lightness of this roof is obvious. Thl
trie arches, and is a much stronger roof than possible in monitor form,-,.;
affords, by automatic ventilators In the.'top, a uniform and adequate
the double sash and high window, riot possible with tho old form roof., Th
cal, rustproofed (In black) steel tubes,* which servo as grab rails Instead <
tlcal tubes are, In turn, supported by tho longitudinal lattice 'steel girder,

permits

supports

INTERIOR OF BEACH CAR

Double Truck Type 101

INTERIOR OF BEACH CAR

ONE OF THE TRUCKS USED ON BEACH
DOUBLE TRUCK CAR

Type 101

THE TRUCK

USED WITH DOUBLE TRUCK CAR

Type 101

In these trucks an entirely new method ot design is followed. The axles are of Chrome steel I
beam sections, each forged with 3% In. ends Inserted Into the bearings, which are of the “Rollway” type,
and. which are In the hub of the wheel; these bearings eliminate friction to- a large extent and are inex¬
pensive to maintain. The axles do not rotate, each wheel rotating independently of. the other, thereby
eliminating all wheel slipping, for example, on a tangent track because of the varying diameter of all car
wheels anil particularly at curves because of the; independent action of each wheel. By this, lnstead_of the
old method whereby the wheels are rigid with the axle and the axle is driven, much oKthe friction loss
is eliminated, less power. Is consumed, and, incidentally, rail corrugation Is overcome.

Oxyacetylene welding is used throughout thls^ truck; 'there' are. ho boi{8 or rivets. -

As usual in maximum traction. trucks, the Beach Maxlmum^Tractloh '.Truck carries the load.'princl**
jpally on the driving or large wheels, and each driving wheel Is driven independently by a 10 H. P.

I ■■ ' ■

BULLETIN No. 3

ESTIMATED CONSTRUCTION AND OPERATING COSTS
BEACH BATTERY CAR SYSTEM COMPARED WITH TROLLEY SYSTEM.

Primary Printed Series
Freid Engineering Company

"The Freid Gravity Dry Process Separators for Separating and
Concentrating Ore Values." N.d. [With two attached sheets.]

SEPARATORS

MANEFAGTDRp BY j|
FREIB ENerKEE®IN.fi_.GJMP-ANY,
7 0KANGE, sh, f\

EREID ENGINBEB

ORANGE. N. J

Primary Printed Series
International Textbook Company
(International Correspondence Schools)

"Languages: I.C.S. System with Phonograph." 1903. [From Scrapbook, Cat.
44,494.]

"Back Talk by the I.C.S. Language System with Repeating Phonograph."
1904. [From Scrapbook, Cat. 44,494.]

"Lessons in Speaking, Reading, and Writing the English Language for
Foreigners." 1904. [From Scrapbook, Cat. 44,494.]

the

Student

Learns

Synopsis of I. C. S. French Course

“Back Talk”

I?:v3

THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

FOR FOREIGNERS;

French Vous poitvez, en peu ,'de
temps, apprendre chez vous
h parler, h dcriie et & lire 1’ Anglais.

German 3t)v fount idjitcll, an Saufe,
„ . cnnlifd) fprcdicu, fefcn linb

fdjrctEeit icrncit. Scfjt Scitc 9. ,
Spanish Ud. puede aprender d hablar,
leer y escribir el ingldis rapi-
damente y d domicilio. Vdase la pagina.
Italian Voi potete imparare a. par-
lare, leggere e scrivere
Inglese a casa. Vedi pagina.

Polish Mozesz .si? pr$dko nauczyfi
w domu mdwiC, czytad 1 pisad
po angielsku. Patrz stronicf. ' •

Lithuanian Greitai igmoksi kal-
bdti; skaityti ir raSyti
angliskai namic. Paziflrek ant puslapio.'
Slovak Mozete sa dorria rychle na-
ucit pfsaf, cltaC a hovorii:
anglicky. Cftajte stranu.
Ruthenian Moskcui jioua iiaii'm-

THCL i onopilTII, 'IIITaVlI
i imcuTii no umvmnicu. ^mm crop.

INTERNATIONAL TEXTBOOK COMPANY

THE FIELD FOR I. C. S.
ENGLISH COURSES

38ic man (Sitglifd) lernt

SBcuu man in bat fficrcinigtcn
Stnatcu UoilurirtS foittmcn wilt, unit)
wait cugtifd) fButtcu. Sljr brandjt
cilicit Scfjrcr bcr nicijt Did foftct, bcr
Cud] nad) bcr 7trBeit iHiterrid)tcn Joint,
* uiib bcr gcbutbig ift mib nic Biifc wirb
menu 3f)r S-ctjtcr wadjt.

Sic 3ntcrii«tionnt (Sorccfpoubcuj
®rf)iilcu

Don Scranton, f|5a., tjaBctt cincn fot»
d)cn Scijrcr, unb liefern itjn Gud) ins
fianS inn Bci Gild) jit Bfcificu. Set
Gbifoit iprjonograpt) ift biefer Cctjrcr.
Gt cntrjiitt bic tcibf)aftc ©tiinnic beS
ScljrctS, bic man nad) ffleticBcn ait
pber ausbrcljctt famt, wfitjrcnb wan bic
ilticrfcfjungcu in feiner cigcncii SOtnttcr*
fpradic auS ben SctjrBiidjcnt tieft.

SBertangt cine frcic 2cftion non
bent bcr Gud) biefeS SiHiibfd)rci6cu
eiidjalibigt. Surd) uufer Stjftcw mi'ifit
, Sfjr imbcbiiigt (crncn, b'enn 3t)r fount
bic- SBortcr on bent ^tjonograpljcn [o
oft loicbcrljotcu Bis SBr fie gctaiifig
iiadj[prcd)cit fount.

Como se Aprende Ingles

Es necesario que Ud. aprenda
inglds si quiere tener dxito en los
Estados Unidos. Ud. necesita un
maestro que cueste poco dincro, que
le ensefie despuds del trabajo cuando
Ud. tenga tiempo y que tenga pacien-*
cia y no se enoje por Ips errores
que Ud. cometa.

LAS ESCUELAS INTERNAC10NALES DE
CORRESPONDENCIA-
de Scranton, Pa., tienen ese maestro
de inglds y se lo enviardn d Ud. para
que viva en su casa. El maestro so
llama el fondgrafo Edison, y contiene
le voz viviente del profesor, la cual
puede Ud. escuchar <5 hacer callnr &
voluntad, al paso que lee la traduccidn
en su propio idioma en los textos’.

El fondgrafo, los registros y
textos se describen en las pdginas
6, 6, y 7.

Pidale una leccidn de prueba al
que le presente esta circular. Ud.
no puede menos que aprender por
nuestro sistema, pues las palabras se
repiten en el fondgrafo una y otra
vez hasta que pueda pronunciarlas
facilmente.

Come apprendere I’lnglese

E’necessario apprendere l’Inglese
se volete aver successo negli Stati
Uniti. Richiedcte un maestro che
costa poco, pub istruirvi dopo il la-
voro, quando avete tempo, cd uno che
sarit paziente e mai si adira ai vostri
sbagli.

IE SCUOLE

1NTERNAZI0NAU Dl CORRISPONDENZA
di Scranton, Pa., hanno un tale
maestro Inglese, e ve lo forniscono
nella vostra casa a vivere con , voi.
II fonografo Edison b il maestro.
Esso contiene la voce vivente del
Professore, che potete portare su e
giii a vostro piacere mentre leggete
le traduzioni nel vostro proprio lin-
guaggio nel libro di testo.

Il fonografo, ricordi e libri di testo
sqno mos-trati sulle pagine. 6, 6, e 7.

Cercatc di nitre una Icziouc di
firuova gratuila da chi presenta questa
circolare. Non potete fallire di ap¬
prendere da questo sistema, perchb
le parole possono essere ripetute sul
fonografo fino a che le parlate scor-
revolmente.

Jak uczyc sie po angiclsku

Koniccznie musisz si? uczyc po
angielskti, jezcli chcesz zrobic po-
stfp w Stanach Zjeduoczonych. Po-
trzebujcsz nauczyciela, ktdryby nie
by} drogi, nujgt ci? uczyd po robocie
kiedy masz czas, ktdryby by} cier-
pliwy i nigdy si? nie pogniewat gdy
zrobisz omylkp.

THE INTERNATIONAL
CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOLS
w Scranton, Pa'., majg takiego an-
gielskiego nauczyciela i niogg po¬
sted ci go do domu, aby wraz z tobg
mieszkal. Fonograf Edysona jest
tym nauczycielem. On ma w sobie
zywy glos. profesora, ktdrego mo-
iesz siuchad kiedy ci si? podoba,
czytajgc rdwnoczednie z ksiqzki- we
swoim wlasnym jpzyku tldmaczenie
tego, co on tndwi.

Fonograf, rekordy i ksigzki sg
przedstawione na stronicach 6, 6 i 7.

PoproS aby ci da} posiucbad jedng
bezplatng lekcyp, ten ktdryci wrpczy
ten cyrkularz. W taki sposdb-.jak
my, uczymy, '.musisz sip nauczyd’an-
gielskiego jpzyka, bo slo.wa mozesz
powtarzad na fonografie tak dingo,
dopdki sip nie' nauczysz wymawiac
je plynnie.

INTERNATIONAL
CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOLS

Primary Printed Series
H. Wolke, Inventor [Herman Wolke]

"Newly Planned and Constructed Compound and Variable Speed Turbine."
Ca. 1903.

"Something New in the Toy Line: Automatic Dancing Doll and Display
Stand." Ca. 1904.

Some Timely Statements

And COMMERCIALLY

CONSIDERED FACTS

i Compound nnd Variable Speod

j TURBINE

H. WOLKE, Inventor

PUBLICATION AND MICROFILM
COPYING RESTRICTIONS

A Note on the Sources

The pages which have been
filmed are the best copies
available. Every technical
effort possible has been
made to ensure legibility.

219

FINANCIAL CONTRIBUTORS

PRIVATE FOUNDATIONS
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Charles Edison Fund
The Hyde and Watson Foundation
National Trust for the Humanities
Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation

PUBLIC FOUNDATIONS
National Science Foundation
National Endowment for the
Humanities

National Historical Publications and
Records Commission

PRIVATE CORPORATIONS AND INDIVIDUALS

Alabama Power Company

Anonymous

AT&T

Atlantic Electric

Association of Edison Illuminating
Companies

Battelle Memorial Institute
The Boston Edison Foundation
Cabot Corporation Foundation, Inc.
Carolina Power & Light Company
Consolidated Edison Company of New
York, Inc.

Consumers Power Company
Cooper Industries
Corning Incorporated
Duke Power Company
Entergy Corporation (Middle South
Electric System)

Exxon Corporation

Florida Power & Light Company

General Electric Foundation

Gould Inc. Foundation

Gulf States Utilities Company

David and Nina Heitz

Hess Foundation, Inc.

Idaho Power Company

IMO Industries

International Brotherhood of Electrical
Workers

Mr. and Mrs. Stanley H. Katz
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
Midwest Resources, Inc.

Minnesota Power
New Jersey Bell
New York State Electric & Gas
Corporation

North American Philips Corporation
Philadelphia Electric Company
Philips Lighting B.V.

Public Service Electric and Gas Company

RCA Corporation

Robert Bosch GmbH

Rochester Gas and Electric Corporation

San Diego Gas and Electric

Savannah Electric and Power Company

Schering-Plough Foundation

Texas Utilities Company

Thonms & Betts Corporation

Thomson Grand Public

Transamerica Delaval Inc.

Westinghouse Foundation
Wisconsin Public Service Corporation

BOARD OF SPONSORS

Rutgers, The State University of New
Jersey

Francis L. Lawrence
Joseph J. Seneca
Richard F. Foley
David M. Oshinsky
New Jersey Historical Commission
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